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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A list of ideas for preparing for General Conference to get the most out of it:

Make a list of specific questions or issues you're working on and would like help with.
Fast about a specific topic before Conference
Pray

To feel the […]

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The 177th Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints starts tomorrow!  See how to watch it here.
General Conference happens twice a year, usually the annual on the weekend of the first Sunday in April and the semi-annual on the weekend of the first Sunday in October.  During General Conference, the […]

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As I mentioned, we BBQed last night, even in the snow and wind. We have one of those globe-shaped cheap grills you buy at Wal-Mart. Last night Colin had me light it and it was fun. He cleaned out all the stuff from last time we used the grill (last summer) and piled the charcoal […]

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Last night we had a backyard campout.  We barbecued burgers and baked beans and drank root beer.  Degen ran all around the yard up the hill with his root beer bottle.  With his big hooded sweater, Colin kept calling him his "little beer gnome." 
Colin set up the tent and put the LuvSac inside and […]

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Another book you should all read is Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray.  Now, I'm not saying this book will solve all your problems or that everything in it is right on, but I do think there are a lot of valuable concepts Gray teaches and teaches well.
The premise of […]

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I discovered spray starch this weekend and am strongly tempted to iron everything in my house with it.  That's a big deal for me because I'm really not into ironing except for the occasional moving meditation benefits.  Colin said that everyone gets on a starch kick the first time they try it and I am […]

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Today is my dad's 54th birthday.  Dad is one of those people who never looks much older.  When he was in his 30s, people still thought he was a teenager sometimes.  He taught at a university and sometimes his "kids" looked a lot older than he was.  Now that he has some gray in his […]

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I love breakfast food, but I never seem to be able to think of a place to go to breakfast when I have the opportunity.  Here's a list of local places I've been to (and would go back to) that serve breakfast:

Mimi's Cafe
Callie's Cafe
Denny's
Einstein Bros Bagels
Gandalfo's
Golden Corral
IHOP
Jamba Juice
Jim's Family Restaurant
Kneader's
Magleby's
Pete's Lunch

And a list of places […]

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Today Degen learned to say "E," as in the letter E.  Then he talked to my sister Emily on the phone and learned to say her name. 
A friend of Colin's says "Whaaaaa?" (the pitch rises near the end) when he means "what?" and Colin's taken to copying his idiosynchrasy for fun.  Now Degen says […]

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This weekend Degen and I crashed the end of a birthday party.  My neighbor has twin boys who just turned seven and they had a pirate birthday party.  Degen saw the kids outside waiting for their parents to pick them up at the end and wanted to play, so we walked across the street to […]

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