The Book of Martha

A few weeks ago, Hugh and I were asked to serve as a Ma and Pa for the upcoming stake youth conference in July. It’s a four-day trek, a reen...

My cousin, Susan, is really my mother's first cousin.  Susan's mother and my grandmother are sisters and yet Susan and I are just mo...

Last October Hugh and I started working in the Los Angeles Temple. When we were interviewed by President Martz last September he told us tha...

  Sister Janet Reynders Janet is outta here!  She's off on another mission and I couldn't be more pleased.  I, her aunt, again have ...

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, becom...

Love is the way of the disciple. I'm not going to be writing about my lessons every week.  I can't keep up with it, but I will sh...

"I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hangi...

  The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. --Burton Hills-- I'm h...

  This semester has been different for me.  Different, because I've been on a number of trips - twice to Arizona, and once to Florida.  ...

Cassie and the boys left last night to join Ruben in Puerto Rico. They had a rough start finding out at the airport that they couldn't b...

Hugh and I took a long weekend visiting  Billy, Chelsea, and their two little girls in Arizona.  We were there for Dani's blessing.  We ...

I never have the pictures or the words to tell it all , but here's a glimpse of our celebration. Our first guests to arrive were also o...

One of our activities over Thanksgiving week was to "count our many blessings". We asked everyone who came by to write down someth...

Sunday, our first guests arrived for the Thanksgiving holiday.  My brother, Adam, and his family will be here for the week.  First on the li...