Stephen M (Ethesis)

When I was younger, a lot younger, I had an older guy tell me "all women are crazy" as advice. At the time I thought he was an id...

Father's day has often been very hard for me. I felt such a sense of personal failure at the deaths of each of the three daughters we b...

So often I read someone urging someone else to just "drop their baggage" -- with the baggage being their job, their religious quir...

Utopias are interesting things. To me, utopia is my kids not getting sick (or if they are sick, not saying "don't pray for me, wai...

VADE MECUM. ... FROM W. W. PHELPS to JOSEPH SMITH, Jr. ..... Go with me, will you go to the Saints that have died— To the next better world ...

Some misc. comments, on a personal note, rather than essays. Just switched to Sunrocket for our telephone service. Switching from a $45.00...

One thing that always struck me about historical research was just how miserable the lives of those living in the past were by our standards...

A heart breaking post at Happy Birthday Betsey Pearl -- a story from Portland, Oregon where my brother lives and where I visit from time to...

The Silence of the Lamb – What is happening when we can not hear Christ in our time of sorrow. Introduction "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani...

The kids were well. The grandparents had a delightful time and everyone was very happy. I'm still jet lagged, but I dropped my mom and...

Win and I are going to Paris to celebrate our 20th. Why Paris in springtime? Aside from the fact I've wanted to go to Paris since the ...

Miracles are one of the most problematic experiences in my life. I could find a world without tangible miracles acceptable. I have friends ...

On my new policy of deleting links and no longer visiting sites that have deleted links to my blog, I received the following e-mail, which I...

One surprising thing in my life is the amount of pure animosity my sixteen year old daughter has had to suffer through. Much of it was mere...

When Jessica was in her final illness, we transferred from Fort Worth Children's Hospital to Dallas Children's Hospital. Dallas had...

I've been down. First, my PC needed an upgrade, which meant that WindowsXP no longer functioned. That took a week in the shop and a co...

I donated blood yesterday. Before Jessica died, I had donated enough that they gave me my four gallon pin. When she was on ECMO is also the...

In case you don't realize it, this blog is a continuation, in many ways of http://adrr.com/living/journal.htm -- on-line journal entrie...

Alessia by Wilfried Decoo Alessia, I hope you will read this post, now, or rather some day in the future when you will be an independent adu...

Please pray for a friend's son, who is in such dire straits. I know, there is so much sorrow in the world, but I hope for grace and mer...