There are quite a few verses in the Bible that compare valuable things like wisdom and honorable people to rubies.  Rubies are extremely rare and precious gems, and obviously, very difficult to find. But despite how dark and desolate Salt Lake City made me feel, I did mine one rare and beautiful friendship — that’s […]

Lou wasn’t coming back to Utah until the first full week of January, which meant we would each be ringing in the New Year on our own.  Henry hosted an annual New Year’s Eve party, complete with a fireworks display, and lots and lots of family and friends from his and Jackie’s ward. So my […]

The winter hippies and the regular guests had more-or-less mixed into one mass of partygoers, and before long, I completely lost track of Sam.  I was helping Jackie keep up with the cups and glasses when I came around the corner to enter the dinning room. That’s when I saw Sam mauling Melanie’s face off […]