So your family has decided you want a dog: congratulations! Dogs can bring so many wonderful things to your family’s lives: companionship, unconditional love and a great excuse for exercise. While people have many commitments, relationships and chores to a dog you are his entire world.

For years when I heard or read the word “Volunteer” I would cringe.  I am so busy already, why should I add more to my already hectic schedule by volunteering?  Perspective changes when...

Hello friends! As a new year begins, I highly encourage each and every family to prepare a family mission statement. It can be of great value during the tough times which are surely to be a part of life’s experiences.

Write the history of one nuclear family.  Choose a family, your own, the one you grew up in, the family your father grew up in, the family of an ancestor… just that family though.

One of the most sobering HFPE meetings I ever put together was when I had the local fire department come give a presentation on fire safety. They showed a video that was scary -- The time from first flame to total engulfment...

Typically, a family mission statement would reflect the thoughts and ideas of everyone in the family with each person who is old enough contributing to its formation. We tend to support ideas better when we "own" them....

How many times have we met or know of people who are slovenly, lazy, or who do not work hard?  For these people it shows in their homes as well as in the lives they lead.  My father has always been a hard working man.  He was raised on a 2,000 acre ranch which always had hard work in the natural elements, and ....

I have discovered two things about my family.  One, that they do better if we do our scripture study in the morning and two, they eat better if they don’t eat right after they wake up.  We do our scripture study first thing in the morning then eat breakfast.