Anyone who gets kids ready to go back to school knows that once the kids are actually in school, they are not at home. Which means the house is empty. Except for you. All alone. No one fighting, whining or crying. No one needs you to do something for them. No one asks you to answer questions ...

Next week, school starts again at Weber State University. In a way, it’s starting again for me, too. When I graduated from Weber State in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in political science, I never dreamed I’d be returning 25 years later as president of this incredible institution. In ...

‘Twas the night before carpet, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring except one very confused cat. While Pa with his backache, And I with my head, had just settled down  On a strange makeshift bed.  We’d decided to carpet all of our floors,  Inside the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth views warfare through the lens of a cartoonish Macho Man, claiming that military members “are not defenders anymore”; they are “warriors, trained to kill the enemy and break their will.” Directing the war in Iran, he ordered, ”No quarter, no mercy for ...

As a child, my father made me read National Geographic stories and summarize each paragraph with a single written sentence. I would have preferred to watch what my father called the “boob tube,” and it would have been easier for him to let me. Instead, he insisted that I keep reading and ...

Those of you of a certain vintage — who, like me, are close to being fitted for coffins — must be applauding the re-appearance on TV (the INSP channel) of Have Gun - Will Travel (for some reason with a hyphen, not a dash or a comma; let’s call it HGWT). That extraordinarily popular show ...