Angela Lankford

Crash-proof Your Teen
By  Angela Lankford
August 30, 2011 04:02 AM MDT
Parents, grandparents, siblings, teachers—at one time or other, we all worry about our teens behind the wheel of a car. Although licensed teens have attended driver’s education programs and passed the state examination to receive a driver’s license, we still worry about their lack of road experience.
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Stop the Digital from Dominating Your Life
By  Angela Lankford
April 26, 2011 04:05 AM MDT
You may have 400 friends on Facebook or 200 followers on Twitter, but how many of those people do you actually interact with outside the virtual world? Church leaders have warned us to avoid the kind of digital immersion that prevents us from enjoying person-to-person communication, but we have also been counseled to use Internet tools to spread the gospel and do good. So how do we find that happy balance?
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LDS moms host world-famous mommy podcast
By  Angela Lankford
March 30, 2011 04:03 AM MDT
In 2005, LDS moms Gretchen Volgelzang and Paige Heninger hosted the first show of the podcast Mommycast. The show was one of the first parenting podcasts in the podcasting universe and became a popular online discussion forum for moms on the go. In just six years, the show has earned a place on Babble.com’s top 50 Mompreneur’s list, and has gained an audience of over 1.2 million.
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LDS family shares story of being stranded in Tokyo after earthquake
By  Angela Lankford
March 16, 2011 04:08 AM MDT
As their children said prayers, Melissa and John Petrini carried Benjamin (7) and Isabella (5) through the crowded streets of Tokyo only moments after the 8.9 earthquake experienced on March 11. As a dentist for the United States Navy, John and his family had been deployed to Okinawa, Japan. Each year, the Petrinis and four other LDS families on deployment visit Tokyo for a week-long temple trip and site seeing tour.
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Why Jane Austen appeals to LDS women
By  Angela Lankford
February 23, 2011 06:36 AM MST
When author Howard F. Clarke published a re-formatted version of the Jane Austen biography, Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters, a Family Record, he discovered that book sales in Salt Lake City, Utah surpassed sales in all the other U.S. cities by a ratio of 8 to 1.
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