At 12:33 p.m. on a sweltering Tuesday in June, a text pinged on Nancy Weston’s phone. The Weber-Morgan Medical Reserve Corps needed help fast. The Iron Fire was burning through Juab and Tooele counties, forcing community evacuation and activation of an American Red Cross shelter. The request ...
In my July 22 letter, "Utah's new Agent Orange Memorial highlights the cost of freedom" published in The Salt Lake Tribune ), I provided details about a new memorial in Sunset, Utah honoring Vietnam War casualties. The new memorial was installed in Sunset Veterans Park and is located near the ...
The other night, I got up at 3 a.m. to use the bathroom and heard the dishwasher making a terrible grinding noise. I couldn’t stop the cycle by pushing buttons, but it stopped when I opened the door. All good. We (meaning Dave) could deal with the problem in the morning. I plodded back BEEP ...
In my circles and in the landscape of education, I hear all too frequently a phrasing about the “industry of education,” or “in our industry,” leading into more talk about the nature of teaching and learning from early childhood through the university systems. To be fair, I know that ...
The puzzling day comes into every parent’s life when your children become your parents. In an eerie moment we look back to check on them and they’re no longer there. Then we look forward and there they are, outperforming us, outthinking us, and sometimes reaching back to help us move safely ...
The current state of college football is truly putting up a mirror up to reflect the current condition of American society. In a nutshell it is corrupt, lacking common sense, and is filled with individuals and institutions willing to sell their souls for a win, and of course, the cash. Then add ...
