The following is my 2011 List of Words and Phrases That Irritate Me. Organic Mattress Life Coach Drug-Free Birth (the phrase…not the actual event) Bi-Partisan Climate Change (the phrase…not the actual meteorological events it describes) BPA Free Free Range @(name) when not on Twitter Free Thinking (as used in the context of disagreeing with something…this does [...]

I recently spoke at Ignite Salt Lake. Here are the movies I mentioned in my talk as ones I think everyone must see once before they die. There are lots more to add…these were just the few I came up with first. Casablanca Serenity Gone With the Wind The Maltese Falcon Apocalypse Now The Royal [...]

Watching Eli with the dog, it was suddenly so clear. The dog wouldn’t stop, it would never leave him. It would never hurt him or shout at him or get drunk and hit him or say it was too busy to spend time with him. And it would die to protect him. Of all the [...]

We want our children to be analytical thinkers, but only in as far as they reach the same conclusions we have…

The following is a transcribed interview that appeared in Vanity Fair Magazine on March 5th, 2015 conducted by entertainment writer Darrish Jones with Academy Award winner Jennifer Marks. Jones: Jennifer, you just won an Academy award for your gripping role in the film “Cancer Tree”. This has been considered to be your breakout role. How [...]

I will win an Oscar some day. Any suggestions on how???? (I’m thinking Best Costume design…because of that play I did the props for in high school…the one with the capes…)

Dan and I have a running joke about the use of the greeting “aloha” in church. Mostly the joke is about how annoying it it, and how even more annoying it is when they want you to say it back. Speaker: ALOOOHA! Congregation: Aloha Speaker: NO! I SAID ALOOOOOOOOOOOOHA! Congregation: ALOHA And so forth. So [...]

Last week I was at my parents house sorting through some old books and whatnot and I came across a notebook I kept while I was on my mission. On the back cover I had written “Things I want to do in life” with a quaint little list of life dreams and life aspirations. They [...]

Every time you text while driving God kills a kitten.