It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

Behavior shapes emotions.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.