The Honor Code Backslider

Now that I look back, I see that I slid backwards almost from my first day at BYU.  I had good intentions, and my...

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The Coop

Kaboom!  My head bounced off the bedroom floor.  It was ten minutes to midnight.  Eyes popped open as the rest...

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Electrocution

“I had a farm in Idaho”.  Doesn’t exactly have the same ring of the opening lines from “Out of...

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Serfing

Serfing Drawn and Quartered. Ever wonder about that term – D and Q?  Somewhere along the line I’m sure you...

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Cellars

Remember Psycho – Norman Bates – those final scenes – door bursting open, light swinging?  Is that the...

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Buzzing

Do you remember the times when you felt you were really alive?  I mean really, really alive. Sometimes a first in...

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Five Buckle Overshoes

“Make sure you fasten every buckle” my mom called as I headed out the door.  “And don’t cut your finger...

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Thirty-Eight Miles Down A Volcano

The Sandwich Islands.  Captain Cook, comely raven-haired maidens.  Soft, offshore breezes fluttering the coconut...

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Class Memories

Fifty years ago 104 of us walked across the stage and graduated from High School in the small town of Pleasant...

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Another Stupid Trick

The first time that phrase rang in my ears was in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho.  My family had a small farm and I was...

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The Devil’s Own

Most of us plug through our Work-A-Day lives at roughly (very roughly) 8 hours a day – 50 weeks a year –...

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So You Want To Be A Used Car Dealer

Life was good.  I had a contented grin on my face and calm in my heart – tooling along about 75 just north of...

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Neighbors

neigh·bor  (nbr) 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located...

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Water Skiing In The Murdock Canal

The Murdock Canal is a century old water conveyance facility running along the foothills of Utah County. Farmers...

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Tales Of The Sewer Trench

My dad would be ten feet below bending over a sewer pipe at the bottom of the trench.  At the top I would very...

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SKIN

Human Skin is the body’s largest organ.  It’s soft, pliable, strong, waterproof, self-repairing...

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Rock Rolling

This short article involves the revelation and confession of activities that are, as a minimum, in violation of...

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Tale of Two Toilets

I had flown in from LA on Tuesday to pick up my mother from the convalescent center to take her home – and then...

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Joe and the Toe

As I approached Home Depot I glanced down at my legs and feet, scratched and scarred from various projects over...

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Frutas Del Diablo

I must tell you of an unfortunate incident that happened a while ago. I was in Costco – where all good...

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WELL, WELL NEW YORK CITY

DAMN! Black as the inside of a CoaI Mine. I was headed home from my corporate job in Midtown Manhattan – just...

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