cyclops: Planning funerals at the mall? Tell me it isn’t so Two days before his passing, Pope John 23rd claimed he could “follow my own death step by step.” In Utah, he could have started even earlier – by having the Popemobile visit the local mall. I was...
Is Sen. Liljenquist’s idea to cut Medicaid funding reasonable? Some things in life are so easy to understand that the mind boggles when they are ignored by apparently educated people. Usually when those plain and precious things are ignored it is not out of ...
Facing life with our pants in place It was a balmy summer evening about 12 years ago, and my wife, Anita, and I were downtown with our two youngest children, Elizabeth and Jon. We’d had a pleasant time visiting with old frien...
Movie Beat: ‘Takers’ makes crime feel like office work The secret to any good heist film is to give the audience a taste of the adrenaline that keeps the characters hooked on their highly illegal jobs. Whether it’s the split-second high wire act of ke...
Slice of Life: Choosing what to Slice-off each day I have been mentally weeding through my treasury of experiences, real and fantasies, as well as lessons learned through “trial–and-error”. I am searching for a “Slice of Life” to render up this we...
Is your home happy? Is your home a happy place for your children—not an indulgent, do as you please place—but a happy place? Do your children know that you really do love them? Do they feel that love and caring? ...
Laughing Matters: My cups runneth over with science At school, I often hear kids complain that science isn’t fun. But what our bored teens don’t realize is once they get beyond the meaningless, trivial science of high school, they can begin doing i...
Education Beat: Missing the point I pledge myself, to the best of my ability, to help the students of Davis County and all over the nation and world to love to learn. Many similar pledges of service, kindness, patriotism and more ...
Ask a Therapist: Neurosis: As good as it gets To assume that life isn’t the way it should be, and to be angry because of the assumption, is merely to state that our perception is imperfect. In reality, everything has its own time and season, ...
In This Together Imagine having an inflation rate of 13 percent. And a mortgage with 20 percent interest. Imagine having two world powers in a race to have the most weapons capable of destroying the world. An...
Tones of the Heart We Look to Our Past for Understanding, Not Excuses; For Compassion, Not Pain and Guilt We look to our past for understanding, not to make excuses for our lives. We look to our past with compassio...