By Gary Topping– Like our chief blogger, Mike O’Brien, I’m a history fanatic. Unlike Mike, though, history is my daily work. While he’s there in his law office poring over…
Posts published in January 2020
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Me a history nerd? Guilty, as charged. Yet, even for a history buff like me, landmark historical events are much more real if I can somehow…
By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– (Editor’s note: Although based on a true story, this story has been fictionalized to preserve privacy and confidentiality.) Love Thwarted “Not again!” I said. “I’m…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A sad but inevitable fact of aging is that one must endure the pain of various forms of loss, including the loss of old friends. And…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien (copyright 2020)– (Editor’s note: This is part 2 of a short story work of fiction. Part 1 (The Absolution Algorithm, part 1) described how during a routine…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien (copyright 2020)– (Editor’s note: This is a short story work of fiction.) My dear departed mother probably is sad that my daily routine omits the regular…
By Gary Topping– At cocktail parties, lawyers like Mike O’Brien typically get hit up for legal advice (I do it to him myself), while medical doctors get asked medical questions. …
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I have great memories, from age 7 in 1968, of listening to the radio with my very cool older sisters. I particularly remember a hit song…
By Gary Topping– Shortly before Christmas, I finished reading D. Michael Quinn’s Early Mormonism and the Magic World View. Quinn, in my opinion, is the finest historian of Mormonism that…