Earlier this summer, my mother pulled out a wicker basket of old family photos, dating back to her childhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1930s and 1940s. Albuquerque was a hot, dry place then, and climate change means it’s hotter and drier every year. Here in Utah it’s been ...
When our daughter was young, we lived in Houston, Texas. Not wanting to lose touch with family and friends who all missed our little Catherine (not so much us, apparently), I created a website where I posted our doings that month. I didn’t consider the fact that there might be some things ...
When I used to live in Colorado, I noticed a strange pattern at trailheads. Some had colorful piles of bagged dog poop stacked around the signposts, while others were perfectly clean. What was striking was the absence of in-between cases: There were either a lot of bags or none at all. I ...
Ogden-Hinckley Airport is on the brink of a historic transformation — an opportunity two decades in the making. Thanks to the leadership of Mayor Ben Nadolski and the Ogden City Council, change is underway that could redefine the airport as one of the community’s greatest assets. The ...
There is a way to eliminate those bugs destroying your gardens ... A few weeks ago, my husband and I went to the Natural History Museum of Utah’s Bugfest — an annual event that introduces us humans to the wriggling masses of critters with whom we share this planet. Through dozens of ...
The issue of gerrymandering has taken a bit of the stage in politics lately. It’s because Texas is trying to redraw its district lines, this directive coming from President Donald J. Trump through Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Republican majority in the Texas House of Representatives. As ...
