Currents February 2022
I remember when I first started working with a group of 3-year-olds in a church class, I was completely at a loss as to how to deal with some of…
Meet Big Ocean: Emily Layton
One of our newest members of the Big Ocean Women communications team is a wonderfully insightful author, Emily Layton. She grew up in Tempe, Arizona and is “the middle of…
Utah March for Life
Some of our Utah cottages joined the March for Life at the Utah State Capitol on January 22, 2022 where Nick Vujicic was a keynote speaker. Margo Watson shares her…
Signatures and Fingerprints
Signatures and fingerprints are unique. It’s hard to wrap your brain around it, but it’s true. We have seen bad guys in the movies take pains to NOT leave their…
Women
Women are amazing. At least I have never come to know one who isn’t worthy of numerous superlative adjectives. Of course I don’t know everyone, and my circle isn’t a…
Uniquely My Brother
When my older brother returned from the war in Vietnam, he was treated cruelly by some people, just like other returning veterans of that particular war were treated. It was…
Continuing Aid for Refugees
Big Ocean Women and friends for the cause donated resources to assist another family who recently arrived in Utah from Afghanistan! The Emami family with 11 members exited Afghanistan on…
Worthy of Respect
This month is such a great time of the year. February is a nice little in-between-seasons time, the space between winter and spring. It’s a great time to do a…
On Red Rocks, Rivers, and Ravines
Once, on a writer’s retreat to a desert in south-central Utah, I was caught in an unexpected downpour while standing on a red rock ridge high above a green grass…
I Can Be a Light
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” Albert Einstein In this quote, Einstein captures our tenet for…