History, Real Life and Faith
I’m just in from a destination wedding in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where we played on the beach, ate like there was no 2013, and celebrated a delightful family occasion. Welcome to the family, Jennie! Sunday morning, however, was a quiet time and while my daughter and husband played tennis, I went in search of church. My first thought was the…
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Now that the Christmas hoopla is over, vacation may be stretching before you with housebound with self-proclaimed bored kids. Don’t believe it. They’re just baiting you. As the creator of Mrs. Ule’s Mean and Cruel Summer School, I have ideas for “entertaining” children. 1.Teach them to cook. I don’t mean Betty Crocker‘s brownies or even the alleged macaroni and cheese that comes in a…
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After my father’s death in 2002, we honored my parents’ memory by spending inheritance money on a family trip. My husband longed to visit Middle Earth, so once the college kids got out of school in December, we packed up and headed to New Zealand. We camped in an RV and traveled from Auckland on the north island all the…
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I’ve just finished writing my Christmas novella for next year: The Gold Rush Christmas, and it includes a Christmas-themed totem pole. It’s the story of young adult twins who journey to Alaska in search of their missionary father during the 1897 Gold Rush. The boy next door, a seminary student, joins them in an attempt to woo the heart of the…
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Like many of you, my last 18 hours has been filled with work, Christmas shopping, Christmas cards, holiday merriment, cookie baking (burned them), shipping packages (had to wait in line twice) and pouring water into the Christmas tree base (must do that again). I’m taking a break from Christmas today, however, to participate in a “blog hop” with some of my…
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Six ways to cope with a death at Christmas. On a December 22, I signed the paperwork to remove my mother from life support systems. We buried her December 26. That was the worst Christmas of my entire life. I’ve never felt the same way about the holiday since. Oh, yes, I know it celebrates the Savior’s birth. I know…
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