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October 2019

October 12, 2019
    I think that I'll call attention one more time to the fact that...
October 12, 2019
    This is the promised second passage that struck me from one of the...
October 12, 2019
    My wife and I attended a session this evening in the St. George...
October 11, 2019
    I was saddened to learn today of the death of Elder James O....
October 11, 2019
    I believe that I've already expressed my displeasure here with the term right-wing...
October 10, 2019
    It's inexpressibly sad that such instructions even need to be given.  But they...
October 10, 2019
    A few instructive links on Mr. Donald J. Trump's catastrophic new policy in...
October 10, 2019
    Rather oddly, one of my readers, responding to yesterday's blog entry "Will all...
October 09, 2019
    I've occasionally been criticized for my disinclination to treat online relationships, virtual communities,...
October 09, 2019
    We're entering into the holiday season.  Several houses in my neighborhood have had...
October 09, 2019
    President Russell M. Nelson has announced that 2020 will be a special bicentennial...
October 09, 2019
    In a blog entry posted on Monday ("Lunch with the Turkish consul general"),...
October 08, 2019
    My wife and I attended a marvelous concert this evening by the remarkable...
October 08, 2019
    I've been re-reading the novella Siddhartha, by the German-born writer Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)....
October 08, 2019
    When I heard, on Sunday night, that Donald Trump had decided to clear...
October 07, 2019
    Thanks to the inquiry of a reader, I now realize that I didn't...
October 07, 2019
    I'm just back from having lunch on the campus of Brigham Young University...
October 07, 2019
    He was more than a decade older than I, and we're only half-brothers....
October 06, 2019
    Important Message:   I'll be speaking this coming Sunday, 13 October 2019, in...
October 06, 2019
    Let me just say that I loved -- absolutely loved -- President Russell M. Nelson's...
October 06, 2019
    A passage that I gathered for one of my manuscripts-in-progress and that I...
October 05, 2019
    Tonight, in the women's session of the 2019 semi-annual General Conference of the...
October 05, 2019
    I was struck by the beginning of President Dallin H. Oaks's remarks in...
October 05, 2019
    "Why just being in the habitable zone doesn’t make exoplanets livable: Debate over what...
October 05, 2019
    Curiously, even  now I still haven't read the entirety of Alexander Kinglake's 1844...
October 04, 2019
    It's Friday, so -- I hope, to nobody's very great surprise by now...
October 04, 2019
    A short article by Matthew Hutson in the October 2019 issue of Scientific...
October 03, 2019
    I thought that this was a stimulating read:   "Bad Psychology: Why Climate...
October 03, 2019
    The most recent installment of my ongoing "Defending the Faith" column has appeared...
October 03, 2019
    In connection with my MESA 250 class, I'm re-reading Frederick Mathewson Denny, An...
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