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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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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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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By Nettie H. Francis

Las Vegas is a wilderness. I know, because I moved here from a comfortable “Jerusalem.” I wasn’t as supportive as Sariah must have been when Lehi announced that they were moving. I’m sure she just said, “Whatever you say, Honey. I’d be happy to leave all this gold behind and go live in a tent.” But, I’m not such a submissive wife. It took a while for my “Lehi” to convince me that the Lord had called us to move; and to the wilderness, no less. Moving was also difficult for me because I was great with child at the time. In fact, I was due the following month. Besides leaving my comfortable home behind, I had to leave my comfortable doctor and familiar hospital as well. Luckily, we found a wonderful new provider to assist us, and my first born in the wilderness arrived the day after we moved into our new home. We named her Sariah.

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by LaRae Free Kerr

RUMBLE, puff, RUMBLE, puff, the train charged its way down Highway 6 towards the eastern canyons. As my husband and I watched it and felt its noisy rhythm rumbling and puffing down the track, we commented on how long it was. Dozens of ore cars heading back to the mines. RUMBLE- puff, light on their tracks because the cars were empty, hurrying to get there but full of nothing.

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