As a new school year begins, it is worth pausing to consider the importance and value of education. We are fortunate to live in a time and place where free public education opens doors for every child, regardless of background. It is one of the largest investments our state makes, and one of ...
September is National Recovery Month. Across Utah, people will gather this month to celebrate something worth celebrating: People can recover from addiction. But there is a question we don't ask nearly as often. What happens after they do? We tell people struggling with addiction to ...
I recently read an article about the importance of students having a “sense of mattering,” and that phrase has really stuck with me. In higher education, we talk a lot about belonging. We want students to feel connected to their university, their classes, their professors and each other. ...
In this harvest season it might be helpful to know it takes 3 ¼ cups of raspberries to make seven cups of raspberry jam, about 45 beans to fill a pint jar, and about a bazillion green peas to fill up a pint-sized freezer bag. I’m tired already. Because it takes about 40 raspberries to fill ...
I’ve always loved Michelle Obama not because of her hopeful prose or her sense of style, which is always on point, but because the woman’s snark and wit perfectly express much of what runs through my head. Her accolades and accomplishments are enough to make her worthy of adoration: an ...
Our flags went to half-staff because Dolly Parton died. Usually, a nationwide honor like that is reserved for public officials, but President Donald Trump believed it was the right thing to do for a national icon. To a certain extent, Parton was as close to a head of state as the United States ...
