When I was seven years old growing up in Orem, I remember driving past Utah Valley University and thinking: college isn’t for kids like me. My dad worked in construction, my mom cleaned houses, and no one in my family had gone to college. A university degree felt like a distant dream that ...
The first victims of the Nazi efforts to kill everyone who disagreed with them were people with disabilities. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, more than 250,000 people who had physical or mental disabilities were killed. This included 5,000 children. The Nazi government ...
Staring into the faces of my cousins at a funeral for one of them made me realize how much I love these people whom I never chose to be related to, but can’t imagine my childhood without them in it. My deceased first cousin was actually a twin. His family, like mine, had lots of kids. ...
Back in 1979, AC/DC's “Highway to Hell” was a huge hit. What a monster riff by guitarist Malcolm Young! “Rolling Stone” places the song in the top 500 of all time. But writing it was a slow process, and while recording, the band found the right lyrics elusive. Lead guitarist Angus ...
This Sunday is World Gratitude Day and I can’t think of a better thing to turn our attention to right now, given the unsettling events of the past few weeks. As a health care professional, I have been fascinated by a number of studies that have demonstrated tangible benefits from practicing ...
This year being the 50th anniversary of the movie, JAWS, it seems like the perfect time to regale you all with my shark encounter. Since Utah is landlocked, I hadn’t had any live connections before. I’d visited the ocean a few times on vacation but mostly found seaweed. The closest I’d ...
