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…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A mere two years ago, I thought all the Trappist monks forever had left the now-closed Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity in Huntsville,…
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…
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…
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…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My father-in-law Robert Comeau, a man I had never seen weep, teared up one day as he watched me riding bikes outside with my young son…