The 3 Word Journal

 When I was in the ninth grade, I wanted badly to be a basketball team. I didn’t make the school team but our church had a team that all were welcome on. Almost every day after school, I walked down to an outdoor basketball goal that was placed at the end of a cement slab [...]

One holiday I was looking forward to a restful day off since I had had several stressful days coming into it. My wife had gotten up very early to go walking with a friend. When she got home, I was still in bed. She said there was tree limbs and debris throughout the neighborhood caused [...]

 Brandi was very excited. She was a popular cheerleader at her high school and she had been invited by her best friend to go to a large amusement park in Houston, Texas. This outing would be a going-away party for her friend, whose family was moving soon. She ran into the house to tell her [...]

By Kim Detmer
My family and I had just moved back to Utah from Arizona.  I was sent to a middle school across town because of boundaries, so 2 years later when it was time to head to High School it was like starting all over again.  I didn’t know very many people and the school [...]

As a child, I always looked forward to summertime when we visited our cousins who lived out of state. I loved it when my Uncle Jim and his family visited from St. Anthony, Idaho. My cousin Brian and I always had a great time together. One summer we went exploring and found a snapping turtle. [...]

 After graduating from college, I took a job with the 3M Company. Part of my training included a three-week workshop at their headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota.  My wife had just delivered our second child, so she and our two young sons stayed behind in Texas.
  One Saturday afternoon several of us new employees decided to [...]

When I was in the 10th grade, a new church was constructed near my home in southeast Texas. Several of my friends and I spent time volunteering on the work crew, since it was to be our church.  The members of our congregation were extremely proud of the beautiful brick building that replaced an old [...]

David and Jared, two 7-year-old boys, were having an animated conversation while playing outside. Holding a very small green turtle, the kind you buy at discounat stores for a few dollars, David said to his young friend, “You sure are lucky to have a turtle.”  After a long pause, David sighed and said, “All I [...]

It was a beautiful summer day and my friends and I were looking forward to a fun afternoon of water skiing while I was home on leave from the Army. We had a powerful boat to pull us down the river, but our skis left a little to be desired. One was a slalom ski [...]