Essays The Award: A 1985 Mormon Film About Boys Who Are Declared Heroes For Doing Less Than The Bare Minimum I need you to know about a 1985 Mormon film called The Award. I grew up watching this on a regular basis. I've seen it at least 12,000 times.
Sick Last month I got so sick they are creating a new telethon for it and naming a day after me. What's that? They don't do telethons anymore because no one
Essays Coffee It probably wasn’t until I was nearly a teenager that I was even aware of coffee. Sure, I had encountered it before, but I doubt I wondered what it
Ukraine Ukraine Fundraiser Report If you follow me on any social media, you might be aware that I've been The Most Sad And Tired Man In The United States Of God Bless America for
Essays Pioneers In Petticoats: A 1969 BYU Film About Trashy Women I've been putting this one off for years because it felt too overwhelming. But at long last, please enjoy my recap of the 1969 BYU cinematic masterpiece, Pioneers In Petticoats,
Essays The Long Road Back: A 1965 Mormon Film About Chastity. I Think. By reader request (I don’t remember who. Sorry.), I’ve decided to take a deep dive into a 1965 Mormon film called “The Long Road Back.” We begin with
Essays A Flushed Toilet There was a yellow split-level house just on the next street over where Sandy Parker lived. She had a boy my age named Paul Parker. Paul Parker’s large round
Essays My Elderly Parents Got Covid And It Was Terrifying When we entered These Unprecedented Times due to the Covid pandemic, my immediate thought was "my parents better not catch this thing." It occupied much of my brain power for
Essays Measure of a Man: A Recap of a 1962 BYU Film About BEER Ever since I started recapping bad old Mormon movies people have been telling me I “must” check out Measure of a Man. It appears to be a 1962 film produced
Essays Shannon: A Recap Of A 1961 BYU Film About A Very Naughty Girl When I saw there was a BYU film from 1961 called “Shannon” I pulled the trigger and that’s how we ended up here. I have not seen this. I
Essays A New Kind Of Peace This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. I was just about to leave work for the day when my husband called me. “Class has been canceled. They’
Essays How Near To The Angels: A BYU Film Recap From 1956 That Will Make You Feel A Lot Of Things This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. At some point during my periodic search for obscure, horrifying old Mormon films, I discovered a real doozy. This was
Essays We're Coming To The Beehive State. Come On! This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. I sat on the grass near Brigham Young’s grave as a bologna sandwich that had been prepared by a
Essays The Mink Creek Ghost: A Probably True But Hopefully Not True Story This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. When I first met my husband in 2015, he was living in another state. We did the long distance thing
Essays Classic Skating: Puberty On Wheels I was eight years old when I was first introduced to Classic Skating. A neighborhood mom had called my mom to let her know they’d be celebrating her son’s birthday over roller skates and outdated rock music in the local roller rink.
Essays Boy Scouts of America: A Quest for the Eagles' Nest Just before my 8th birthday I was shoved into the neighbor lady’s house down at the end of the street for my first Cub Scout meeting. My friends were there, all boys around my age in half-tucked-in dark blue buttoned-up shirts adorned with patches that looked like sloppily-sewn postage stamps.
Essays Love Is For The Byrds: A BYU Film Recap No One Asked For This video comes with a written warning, and it’s also narrated by a stern man’s voice. I have read this thing like 40 times and I still don’t understand what the hell it’s trying to say.
Essays How Do I Love Thee: A Very Unnecessary Recap Of A BYU Film From 1965 Today, I bring you a BYU film from 1965, How Do I Love Thee?
Essays The Mayan I was in high school when the massive Jordan Commons complex sprouted off of State Street in Sandy.
Essays Not Knowing What Else To Do In late September of 2001, just a couple of weeks after the 9/11 attacks, I was sent a mass email with the full text of an article from The
Essays An Unsettling Chance To Breathe Three years ago during a particularly stressful few months with my job I got a little dog from a small rescue organization.
Essays Utah's Reality TV Pioneers The hot young people hardly older than us were a televised testament that we too could be trusted to navigate complicated adulthood.
Essays Word of Wisdom: Cinematic Masterpieces from the 80s Recently I stumbled upon two early 80s films about the Word of Wisdom I somehow missed during my childhood, and if I now have to know they exist, so do you.
Essays Earthquake Drill In 1993, Jordan Ridge Elementary School revamped its earthquake training efforts.
Essays The BYU Honor Code At this point I hadn’t told anyone I was gay, and I certainly wasn’t tempted to consider it at BYU.
