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The Absolution Algorithm, part 2

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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…

The Absolution Algorithm, part 1

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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…

Do things get better or worse over time?

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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…

Catholic Magic

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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…

A roadside Santa…just in the Nick of time.

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By Jesse Oakeson (Guest Contributor)— Before coming to my current job at Helpside in April 2019, I worked for years at a Salt Lake City law firm. During each of…

Another Nicholas and some different deer

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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Popular Christmas carols, and a well-known poem by Clement Moore, paint a happy symbiotic relationship between Santa Claus—Saint Nicholas—and his local deer herd at the North…

French petunias and Irish onions

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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My boyhood record player turntable often blared out a song, recorded on a little red 45 vinyl rpm, in which a flower lamented, “I’m a lonely…