I got a cell phone when I was 13 years old. It seemed normal, but I never should have been making decisions that could affect my whole life. I was just a child. I think that is what surprises me the most when I look back. Not that I became addicted. Not that it negatively impacted my mental ...

Have you ever considered having your own country? A friend and I used to daydream about this in high school. The mountains were high and the emperor far away, as the Chinese proverb goes, so a spread of a few hundred acres, maybe the size of Monaco, seemed possible with $100-an-acre land. ...

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 ...