By Tina Scott
As far as homemade snacks go, popcorn is as good and healthy as they get. It’s a tasty whole grain food, and through the years, popcorn has been used for more than a movie theater snack or camp-fire treat. Many pioneers used it as a fancy garland on their Christmas tree, but popcorn dates back even further than the pioneers.
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Birds Of A Feather Ice Together
By Tina Scott
In this fast-paced world of electronics, cyberspace and jets roaring overhead, sometimes it’s nice to take the opportunity to crank it down a notch or two and return to simple living; back to a time when an empty cardboard box was major entertainment. Entertaining used to be easy – walk down to the furniture store and grab a box, or a few chairs and a blanket would do. Your children had an instant playhouse, or car, or whatever else their imaginations led them to discover.
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New Year’s Resolutions: Try Something New!
by Annette Lyon
My fourth-grade daughter tested above grade level on reading tests.
Then why was I pulling my hair out trying to get her to open a book at home? Any attempt to push an easy chapter book into her hands was met with a brick wall of resistance. I knew that if she didn’t learn to read, and enjoy reading, she’d have a harder time in school, college, and life.
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Unique Reading Program Reaches Out To Kids
By Jenna L. Consolo
When I was a young teen, Chagall came to town. That is to say, the Philadelphia Museum of Art hosted an exhibit celebrating the life and masterpieces of Marc Chagall. My mother, who was an Art History major in college, as well as a brilliant and natural artist herself, and my father, who appreciated art, but also had an affinity for all things Jewish, packed the nine of us up in the van and headed across the bridge to Philadelphia.
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The Lord Wants Us to be Made Over…But Not in the Image of the World
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers is starting their new year of activities, and would love to have you join them. The DUP is an international society, with over 20,000 members dedicated to preserving the memories of the Utah Pioneers. They do this through preserving landmarks, personal histories, marking historical places and events, and teaching others through educational outreach programs.
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by Robert Cordner
Last year a Las Vegas chapter of the National Society of The Sons of Utah Pioneers (SUP) was organized - the first ever for Southern Nevada. The SUP is extending to you an invitation to join us.
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By An Anonymous Serviceman
The following recent letter is reprinted with the permission of the soldier and his wife.
Dear Family and Friends,
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by Danielle Ellis
During his missionary labors, the apostle Paul experienced much trial and tribulation. He was often in the company of those who sought his life. He was arrested, beaten, plotted against, imprisoned for years, and shipwrecked. And yet he gloried in his trials.
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by Danielle Ellis
“Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earthquake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they somehow will be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.
“The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?” (Ezra Taft Benson, “Prepare for the Days of Tribulation,” Ensign, Nov. 1980, 34) emphasis added.
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by Lorene Plumb
Two weeks ago my son Allen called to tell me his divorce was final; he is forty-seven. Today he called and announced, “I finally got up the courage to ask a lady for a date. I was so nervous I got a sick stomach.”
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A House of Order: Food and Home Storage
Music Review: Local Attorney, Bishop Making Waves In Gospel Music
by Anthony E. Larson
The colorful symbolism of the “Tree of Life” vision given to Lehi and his son, Nephi, is well known and rather easily interpreted by today’s Latter-day Saints.
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by Annette Lyon
One hundred sixty years ago, in 1848, the year-old settlers of the Great Salt Lake valley came head-to-head in a battle to the death with some of the valley’s oldest settlers: voracious crickets, an insect often roasted by local Indians for their winter food supply.
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By Marilyn Richardson
When it’s too hot (or too cold) to go outside, a half hour of indoor circuit training may be the answer. This can be especially fun if the whole family participates.
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Reaching Our Potential At Our Own Pace
