Icebergs, Solar Flares, and How to Make it Work
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. You know how sometimes there are huge differences between people and the ways we deal with life? And how occasionally those differences...
View ArticleToothaches and Pain Killers
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Years ago, about the time Russia was opening up more to tourists from the west, three of my colleagues from the university decided to take...
View ArticlePine Nuts
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Leann received a call from her friend Sarah. “Hey, Leann, do you like pine nuts?” “Of course,” Leann said. “Who doesn’t?” “Well, they are...
View ArticleBeing Positive in the Face of . . . Everything
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. “Hi there! How are you today?” “Doing good.” *shrug* “Might as well.” Heh. I had that little conversation with a woman at church last week....
View ArticleWhat Students Learned in Math Class 2016
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Over the years, we have found that one of the students’ greatest criticisms of any math class is their claim that they didn’t learn...
View ArticleThe Unknown Child
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. The story of how we first became foster parents has its roots much earlier than our first foster child. It all started with an unknown...
View ArticleThe Awesomeness of Millennials and Reciprocity
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. The other day my son told me he was taking off to go longboarding down Provo canyon with some friends. It was 8:00 at night and dark. And...
View ArticleStanding Up for Someone
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. I had just taught a Sunday lesson to my sixteen scouts about what to look for in a young lady, the kind they would like to marry. I...
View ArticleTeaching the Kids About Service
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. I have a big tiller that will rip deep into the ground, yet is small enough I can load it into my pickup. In the springtime I try to take a...
View ArticleLet the Races Begin
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Hailee loved her job working at the nursing home, but there was one challenge she had a hard time with. That challenge went by the name of...
View ArticleA Good Horse
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. My dad had trained our horse, Annie, well. He had used her in the rodeo, for racing, and for just about everything else someone could want...
View ArticleThe Good, the Bad, and the Despitefully Used
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Image via Mormon Newsroom. So. The world. Pretty funky place these days, isn’t it? And you don’t have to look very far to see what I’m...
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Saturday’s Warrior: My Untold Story
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. The first weekend of April in the Salt Lake City area was filled with more than the usual excitement of General Conference this year. It...
View ArticleA Story to Take a Gander At
Connie angrily slammed her paper down on my desk. She was usually so happy that I knew something was wrong. When I asked her about it, she frowned. “The problem is that there are a lot of immature boys...
View ArticleAn Acidic Situation
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. In our mechanics class, Sam had put two powerful chargers on a battery that was already fully charged, blowing it apart and sending a...
View ArticleThe Problem with Talking Too Much
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. A week or so ago I was back out in the south-eastern part of the country visiting my little bro and singing with the Baptist Choir of...
View ArticleFlowers Don’t Last Forever
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. My wife, Donna, looked out the window and saw two little girls. The girls are about nine years old and are good friends. Both of them are...
View ArticleTo Hug or Not to Hug
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. The director of the nursing home called a meeting of his staff. He had a perplexing problem, and he wasn’t sure what to do. In addition,...
View ArticleKey Comments on Test Day
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. I finished passing back the linear algebra tests that I had graded to my students. “Check the tests over,” I told them. “Check to make sure...
View ArticleLove Your Enemies, Love Your Neighbors
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. On Memorial Day 2012, as Fred, now an old man, went with his friend, Akio, to Camp Minidoka and read the words on the memorial there, a lot...
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