A Difference in Culture
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I was nineteen years old and living in New York when I first met Juan. His family had come to the United States from South America, and he was...
View ArticleA Poem for Easter: “33”
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Cover image via LDS.org. Just recently my youngest child, and only son, celebrated his 33rd birthday. It seemed incomprehensible to me that...
View ArticleHiding My Own Easter Eggs
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE One year, my daughter, Celese, invited us to come to her house for Easter weekend. She also invited my father-in-law and mother-in-law, John...
View ArticleOf Good Cheer: When You’re Dealt a Proverbial Cow Pie
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I had the chance to go on Trek this past week…as a pa! For those who have never been on Trek, it works basically like this: There’s a ma &...
View ArticleWhat You Can Learn From Children
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE When I was asked to be the music teacher for all of the children in our congregation who were under twelve years old, I was scared to death. I...
View ArticlePirates, Romans, and Scouts
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE It has been a few years since I’ve officially been a scoutmaster. Years ago, I had as many as eighteen boys in my troop. Even after I moved on...
View ArticleSinging to a Father
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I was asked to teach music to the children at the church I attended. The children were from three to twelve, and we called it Primary. I felt...
View ArticleThe Father’s Day Gift that Kept on Giving
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I was only five years old and didn’t attend kindergarten. Life can be quite boring when a person has to play all alone. But school break had...
View ArticleA Gringo in Peru
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I looked at the menu, and I didn’t understand a word on it. I hadn’t been in Peru long, and I spoke almost no Spanish. I was traveling with a...
View ArticleOn the Naming of Cats
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE One of our cats had kittens this week. They are, I suppose, quite cute. Cats have never been my favorite animal, though there was one that I...
View ArticleA Sense of Balance
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Butch was always one to try to show everyone up. There was never an end to what he would brag that he could do. That’s why what he claimed that...
View ArticleThe Runaway Dowry
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I joined some other men and women to take the youth of our community to a water slide for the evening. I went down the slide only once and felt...
View ArticleWhen Something Gets Your Goat
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I really love mountain goats. I think they are incredible animals. One of my main hopes on our vacation last year to Glacier National Park was...
View ArticleA Thief At Scout Camp
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Gordy stormed out of his tent and marched right over to where I was checking ingredients for Dutch oven cobbler. “I knew it!” he hollered. “I...
View ArticleSolving The Case Of The Scout Camp Bandit
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The following is the follow-up to last week’s article, A Thief at Scout Camp. Scout camp was going pretty much as usual. Gordy had had an Oreo...
View ArticleWhere Do Babies Come From?
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I knew things were going to be interesting in my class of five-year-olds at church when Brittany came in. She looked like a walking storm...
View ArticleSomething New, Something Sweet
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE When we walked into the buffet restaurant, the first thing that caught Jason’s eye was the chocolate fountain. It had three huge tiers with...
View ArticleHatchet Woman
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I grew up on a ranch in the middle of nowhere in Idaho. Our nearest neighbors were a mile away in one direction, with no one living beyond us...
View ArticleA Day to Look Back on a Wonderful Life
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE My mother is 92 and has been without my father for about twelve years. Most of her friends have passed away, and even though she lives with my...
View ArticleGaining Strength to Endure
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I had a knee replacement a couple of weeks ago. Usually, a person needs a knee replacement when they are getting old, and their body is wearing...
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