High School Couples

There are different types of high school couples and many different labels, but for today's purposes we'll only talk about three: the Inseparables, the Never-Touches, and the Out-of-the-Bag Friend Zoners. Most couples can be classified into these three areas and put into different subcategories but let's just focus on the bigger picture here, shall we?

The Inseparables

"[A relationship] is when a man and woman become as one...” -Unknown

These couples are practically melded t...

Faith In Its Many Forms

faith [feyth] noun : confidence, belief, to trust (Webster 503)

Faith can be shown in a multitude of ways: devotion in another and what they stand for, remembrances of times and places past, a staunch belief in ourselves and what we are capable of. The list goes on. However there is a question held within this: What is faith? Faith can not only be held in many things but can also manifest itself in different ways.

Faith is a foundation that helps one stand tall; that unde...

US Currency v. Religious Tolerance

                An argument has been pushed back and forth across the country since at least 1984, if not longer, on whether the religious phrase “In God We Trust” should be removed from all US currency. The proposition of a Higher Power on the assets of a country supposedly free of a common religion stands in contrast to the American Constitution. Any pretext of religion should be removed from new paper money and coins being minted in the religiously t...

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” ~T. S. Eliot

                Though Mr. Eliot was speaking of death and the uncertainty of what comes after, I felt that same fear when my LDS ward started talking of our upcoming Stake Pioneer Trek last spring.  Joy was not what I was experiencing when I thought of facing that dusty trail; it was dread, pumping through my heart.

                It started out just as bad as I thought it would: pushing a handcart across a field in a skirt, bl...