One snowy February the 13th when I was in fourth grade, we were decorating shoeboxes to hold all the valentines we would receive the next day. Outside, huge, lacy snowflakes fluttered down. As I pasted a lace doily onto my work-in-progress, I had...

"Good morning. Who wants to get rid of a headache right now?"

My hand shot up with the speed of light. She beckoned me to the stage.

I had never heard of Bonnie Prudden (at right, with Dave Garroway...

Is there anything more lovely than walking in a fluffy snowstorm through the fairyland of a marshmallow world? Ahead of me is my husband of many years and romping between us is our beautiful new, intelligent German Shepherd puppy. Can anything be more perfect?...

The year was maybe 1971. My two daughters, eight and ten, greeted daddy as he walked into the hotel room. We were attending his convention in Puerto Rico and had just come back from the beach.

"Daddy, guess who the speaker is going to be for...

When your son or daughter brings home a prospective marriage partner, the questions arise in your mind right away: "Who are your people? How were you reared? How have you learned to behave in life?" Of course we don't ask that out loud, but it's a sure bet we parents...

Okay, so Rick Perry thinks the Mormons are some kind of weird cult. And maybe, in the beginning, they were. Hell, even Brigham Young himself declared, "We are a peculiar people."
By the time my great-grandmother finally got here in 1860, Great Salt Lake City was occupied by...

I've heard from Buddhist friends that everyone comes into our lives to teach us a lesson, and to help us rise above our self-defeating patterns, which we play over and over again. One of my most outstanding self-defeating patterns is the urge to fix everything for everybody. Since my sister...

Labor Day ought to include celebrating every woman who has survived having a baby. In fact, I see flags of every nation flying for all women who've gone into labor, because it really hurts like hell.

The first time I went into labor, we were watching some western...

Many years ago I stayed with some friends in Washington while I attended a national convention. My hosts were well connected in diplomatic circles, and invited me to a fancy reception. As we walked into the reception, one person in our little group said to me, "If anyone asks you...

We met over an anthill in a field between our two back yards. I came out of my back gate to find a little girl exactly my size standing there, watching the ants at work. Suddenly she stomped on a whole group of industrious ants, who were just minding their...