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Laureen Simper
4 days ago3 min read
Human Nature Quiz: Who Are You?
Every. Time. No matter how many times I watch the 1946 film, It’s a Wonderful Life, I cry like a little girl, or the Cowardly Lion. I...
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Laureen Simper
Nov 164 min read
Tell Me a Story
(edited from Facebook post November 3, 2022) A season of lengthy recovery [fall 2022] has given me the luxury of more quiet time to cross...
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Laureen Simper
Sep 123 min read
Lessons from 9/11
(Edited from original post September 12, 2021) Yesterday, I read a number of posts of the phone transcript from Todd Beamer on Flight 93...
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Laureen Simper
Aug 264 min read
Take the Kingman Test! You Might be a Kingman if...
Come Follow Me (Alma 51 & 60) Those kingmen, though. They sure knew how to bury the lead story of their true motives when their cause...
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Laureen Simper
Jul 304 min read
Political Correctness Book of Mormon Style
Come Follow Me (Alma 32-35) The cancel culture seems terribly au courant because it hit so fast and almost feels like it came out of...
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Laureen Simper
Jun 194 min read
Predictable Madness
Come Follow Me (Alma 8-12) Alma's mission to Ammonihah makes for some thrilling reading; it runs the gamut of beauty and quite literally...
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Laureen Simper
May 244 min read
Lizard Logic
Actually, there's no such thing as lizard logic. Lizards have teeny tiny brains capable of survival thinking: fight-or-flight, eating,...
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Laureen Simper
May 164 min read
Road Map to Destruction
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 11-17) The Book of Mosiah has some of the most brilliant commentary about government in the entire Book of Mormon...
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Laureen Simper
May 135 min read
You're Not the Boss of Me
We've got to talk about the most incredulous irony of the universe. All things were created by God. He is the King of the universe, and...
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Laureen Simper
May 113 min read
Celebrating Motherhood
Mother’s Day used to really bug me as a young mother. I remember one particularly poignant Mother’s Day when my first child was 2 or 3....
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Laureen Simper
Apr 253 min read
Would You Vote for This Man?
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 1-3) Mosiah 2:17 is almost iconic in its universal recognition and application: “And behold, I tell you these...
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Laureen Simper
Apr 185 min read
"Your" Truth and Other Lies
In 2008 Stephen Covey began a speech at the University of Cumberlands with this story: “It was a dark and stormy night. Crewmember:...
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Laureen Simper
Apr 173 min read
Worth Protecting
(Originally posted May 16, 2022) I was 16 when the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down in 1973. In my sheltered naivete, I was horrified...
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Laureen Simper
Apr 114 min read
Saving the Country and Other Hobbies
In 2006, my book group read a phenomenal book, 5000 Year Leap by Cleon Skousen. It lays out 28 liberty principles culled from the...
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Laureen Simper
Mar 213 min read
Witness, Whittaker Chambers
(Originally posted January 24, 2018) Our book group read an incredible book called Witness written by Whittaker Chambers. Chambers...
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Laureen Simper
Feb 193 min read
Participation Trophies and Bank Holidays
It’s great to get a day off work for any reason, so hey, I’ll take it. But I’m not a huge fan of calling today President’s Day because it...
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Laureen Simper
Feb 134 min read
Re-Write Your Story
(Original post April 30, 2022) I was the burnt waffle. Erma Bombeck wrote that it’s too bad we can’t do children the way we do a batch of...
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Laureen Simper
Jan 213 min read
Start With Their Eyes
The first time I heard the term ‘intersectionality,’ I wondered where it had come from. I had a friend studying at a small university who...
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Laureen Simper
Jan 162 min read
News Is a Product
(Edited from original post October 22, 2022) A plea to my Utah friends: please, please, please break up with KSL News and the Deseret...
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Laureen Simper
Jan 32 min read
Life and Death in Shanghai
Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng (original book review posted August 5, 2016) Word of caution: when you've been wacked out on...
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