My mother passed away on December 23, suddenly and unexpectedly. She and I had a complicated relationship and would go months without speaking. Things got easier when I moved to Utah and texting became a normal way of communicating, but the relationship remained complicated. The first thing I ...
Is America open for corruption now? Unabashedly? Nakedly? Are we tossing aside not just our hard-won victories over infectious diseases but also the more than hundred-year battle against fraud, bribery and graft? Honest, clean government doesn't follow automatically from democracy. Before ...
Angels play basketball. I watched a whole team of them last Saturday doing what these angels do — play excellent basketball and bless the life of a young friend of mine. Crowds quickly recognize when a special needs kid is on the court. Usually it’s because she’s the kid who never ...
Dear Mr. Musk and President Trump (I’m honestly not sure who to address first; you’d think it was the one who was elected by the American people to lead us, but one can’t be sure these days), I am writing this letter as a retired civil servant, the daughter of civil servants and the ...
When I was little, my thrifty grandmother would save bacon grease in a jar that she kept in the fridge. She also always had homemade bread on hand. Often, she would make open-face sandwiches spread with bacon grease and maybe a little mustard. It was pure heaven. I was greatly surprised many ...
In a landmark decision for public health, Utah has become the first state to ban the addition of supplemental fluoride to its public drinking water. This policy opposed by Democrats but passed by the Utah Republicans focused squarely on protecting the health of its residents, while still ...
