Valentine’s Day and its sordid history

February 12, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Nearly 65 percent of Americans celebrate Valentine’s Day every year by buying roses, chocolates and a romantic dinner. Although this Valentine’s Day will be filled with perfect bliss for couples flaunting their romance all around, the history of of Valentine’s Day didn’t start off all that romantic. In fact, it began with a death. History […]

A Not-So-Hopeless Romantic

February 9, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes For as long as I can remember, I have been hardwired to be in love. It is my default setting. Try as I might, I can’t shake this unbearable desire to have a passionate, emotional bond with some special woman. Yet all this time, it’s as if I have some sort of mental block against […]

The Attraction

October 23, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Attraction is an interesting thing. I have noticed that many base their attraction on a first love, a first kiss or a first crush. Another determining factor when it comes to attraction is culture. When I went to Snow College there was a house where a bunch of guys from Hong Kong and Macau lived. […]

The Attraction

October 22, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Each person’s definition of attraction is different and usually acuired at a young age. In my opinion, it is also largly influenced by culture.

Taking Love to the Level of Marriage

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Steve and Cathryn weren’t looking for love. In fact, neither of them expected to be engaged in the near future. But when their roommate and her boyfriend set them up, the inevitable happened. They fell madly and hopelessly head over heels.   Cathryn Bettencourt described the qualities that drew her to Steve Slemboski. “On our first date […]

Senior Couple Love Stories

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Midge & Richard Johnson   How they met:   Midge and Richard met at BYU when Midge was working for a telephone company. Richard went into the company to get his telephone line connected and met Midge. He remembers her as cute and bubbly. Even though she was engaged (and had been engaged a […]

Love Essay

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Love is an attribute that will begin to possess us as we willingly give up the drama, for something much more dramatic.   When one’s world expands beyond self, thoughts are uplifted, and you begin to gravitate towards true and light, you begin to understand the nature of love.   When one’s soul is at peace with […]

What is Love? (Poems and Short Quotes)

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 5 minutes I cut like a knife, I am the risk you are all willing to take. Yet heal your deepest wounds. I have a devastating vice, Yet i am the most powerful virtue. I comfort the weary heart, Give breath to the soul, And light to blinded eye. I am a necessary evil, I am what […]