Craig's Blog

The ancient Greek culture and the Latter-day Saint culture are comprised of strong-willed, disciplined, and obedient people. Both of these cultures also have a strong belief in and worship of some form of deity. When principles of their faith are followed, an increase of blessings are received. This is a wonderful thing, except that it can go wrong when a person forgets who granted those blessings, and feel as if they obtained those blessings out of their own will power. This tends to lead to self-glorification and admiration. Contrary, a lack of a reception of these blessings when one thinks it is deserved, leads one to become spiteful and envious. When either of these events occur, it is known as pride. Pride has a very similar influence on the ancient Greek and present Latter-day Saint cultures primarily through their cultural understanding of pride and the consequences of pride. While there may be similarities, there is also a major difference that changes the en...

Lover of Food I have a wide range of foods that I love to eat. I love to eat very healthy foods or extremely bad foods. There is no in between. It seems like I am either eating salad or a bowl of ice cream. I love the feeling of eating a very nutritious meal that leaves me energized, fueled, and ready to conquer the next few hours before my next meal. I don't know what happens, but there isn't a day that goes by where I don't quite make it to the next meal without eating something unhealthy. Part of the problem is chips and salsa. That is definitely my favorite food and is the only thing that I will binge eat, especially homemade salsa. However, I usually don't eat potato chips, mac n' cheese, donuts, or french fries. I just feel like those foods are overrated. They are not that good for how they make you feel afterwards... Stick-Mallet Swinger  "Stick-Mallets" as my mom calls them, are golf clubs. I used to play football, but in 10th grade I realize...