
What's Christmas All About?
I love all things Christmas, but the overall best thing is the feeling. I love that happy, glowy, everything's right with the world feeling. And the best way to get that feeling is through service to others. One memorable Christmas for me was when my husband and I were just a young couple. His older brother also hadn't been married that long, and had recently moved into a new house and was struggling to make ends meet. My husband had a good job and was doing well, so we d

Can Your Body Survive the Holidays?
I recently read an article in the Oct. 2020 Ensign magazine called, "Stop Making 'Dead Man's Goals'" by Eliza Broadbent. Apparently, Dead Man's Goals is a term psychologists use to describe things we do in trying to break a bad habit that even a dead person could do, like give up sugar. Dead people don't eat sugar. The idea is, you need to replace the bad habit with something positive and proactive. If you just try to quit doing something, you leave a void that is going t