Backstage Graffiti: Multi-Tasking on the Pioneer Trail
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE [This column was meant to run in November of 2015. It fell through the cracks. (There were lots of cracks on the Mormon Trail. In some...
View ArticleA Crusty Fall Freeze: Barnyard Humor
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE It was late October and Butch and Buster, my two friends, had come to visit after school. They weren’t really farm boys. They grew up in the...
View ArticleAn Honest Thief
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE As I read about all of the refugees in the world right now, an estimated sixty million with half of them children, my mind returned to this...
View ArticleSpreading Sunshine
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Though most of us were speeding that day and probably deserved a ticket, it was only Rod that got one. But there was a good reason for that....
View ArticleIt’s Not Over Until The Whistle Blows
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE It was the end of my sophomore year in high school, and I was lifting weights when the football coach approached me. “Howard, have you...
View ArticleWhen to Keep Your Mouth Shut
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Cyrus was an old farmer and had worked hard all of his life. He was independent, but he was getting older and everything was just a little...
View ArticleA Thankful Attitude
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The two girls sat next to each other on the first day of class. They didn’t know each other, and their differences were quite stark. Melanie...
View ArticleAn Independent Child
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Our neighbors have a little three-year-old daughter, Millie, who is very independent. She has to do everything herself. She has been that way...
View ArticleThe Gift Of Oneself
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Christmas was fast approaching, and as I sat in church, all I could think of was the many things that I needed to do. The lesson was titled...
View ArticleFinishing the Job with No Hope of Reward
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Kati Siddoway had run many races, won more than her fair share, even had a few records to her name as a track star. But this Woods Cross High...
View ArticleMarkers and Campers
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE As scoutmaster, I tried to make sure that we went on at least one campout every month, even in the winter. We used these weekends to teach the...
View ArticleA Visit From Santa for David
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Playing Santa each Christmas helps remind me what this season is all about. People ask me how much I charge, and my answer is always the same....
View ArticleSnowed In
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE It was only a week before Christmas that year when the big snowstorm came. But once it started, it didn’t stop for a long time. It snowed a...
View ArticleBrother Against Brother
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I had just moved into the area and was new to the church congregation when I was asked to be a clerk and set up accounting on the newly...
View ArticleTeaching Children About Service
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE A friend of mine, Richard, saw me and laughed. “Is this the new you?” I tried to act innocent. “What do you mean?” He laughed again. “Your...
View ArticleLife’s Outtakes – Quick Wit
I went to the funeral of my Uncle Delos this last week. He was a very good man who loved and served other people his whole life. His wife, Betty, was his greatest love, and when she died about ten...
View ArticleThe War on Drugs on My Doorstep
Not too long ago we got a call from our daughter who said her best friend while growing up had called her for help. In that our daughter lives far away, she called us wondering if we could help her...
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Keeping New Members
I recently taught a lesson about President Gordon B. Hinckley, the prophet who coined the phrase that every new convert needs three things: a friend, a responsibility, and nurturing with “the good word...
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Daniel Webster and the Blacksmith’s Fee
This story in its original form was written by Kenneth P. Wood and first published in Future Magazine. In the 1940’s, President Heber J. Grant sent a little story to the editors of the Improvement Era...
View ArticleThe Avid Scouter
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Delos was an avid scouter all of his life. From the time he turned twelve and joined his first Boy Scout troop, he never missed a campout. Even...
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