Maxed Out Puppetry – Check out our new videos and website
Sorry for the lapse in blog postings during the last couple of weeks. Blogging is but one of my time-wasting endeavors. As many of you know, another is Puppetry. My cousin Rus Wilson, his wife Kelly,...
View ArticleThe Timpanogos Storytelling Festival 2007
The 18th annual Timpanogos Storytelling Festival starts tomorrow, August 30th in Orem, Utah and continues through Saturday, September 1st. The storytelling festival is absolutely awesome! If you have...
View ArticleWhat Would Jesus Do? – A Discussion Between A Six-Year Old and Her Four-Year...
As a kind of a follow up to my previous post on the family, I wanted to share a story about our children that occurred yesterday. First, a little background: A few years back, the Marriage and Family...
View ArticleA New Manual for LDS Nursery – Behold Your Little Ones
Currently in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, some members of the congregation are asked to run a nursery for children from 18 months to 3 years old while their parents attend Sunday...
View ArticleThe Best Christmas Present Ever
First, a little background: We don’t do Santa at our house. We all make or get presents for each other. All of our children are almost as excited about the gifts they are giving as they are about what...
View ArticleAn LDS Mother’s Testimony of Motherhood
Happy Mother’s Day! Below are some excerpts from my own wonderful mother’s testimony of motherhood, written in 2004. Photos of My Mother “When I got married, I just thought it would be another...
View ArticleMy New Internet Puppet Show: Rusty & Ollie’s Fun, Facts, and Follies
While a lot of my blogging focuses on topics of religion and politics, long-time readers of my blog know that I have many other interests. One of those interests is puppetry. I’ve been performing as a...
View ArticleMy Thoughts are Not Your Tharts
The 11-year-old children I teach at church will not soon forget today’s Sunday School lesson. We accidentally coined a new word: Thart. The lesson was on Faith and the early Mormon pioneers. We were...
View ArticleAn Epigenetic Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting
What is Transgenerational Epigenetics? In 1809 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a book entitled Philosophie Zoologique in which he proposed a theory of animal evolution partially founded on the idea...
View ArticleThe Flip Side of the Coin – Mormon Youth Bishop Interviews & Abuse
Recently critics and dissidents have been clamoring for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to abolish the common practice of having lay bishops hold private interviews with youth in which...
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