Several decades ago, my youngest daughter, all of three years old, responded to my request that she clean up some toys she didn’t want to clean up by standing before me, hands on her hips, chin jutted out and eyes blazing as she defiantly told me, “You can’t make me!” The thought that ...
With America’s Constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional convention occurred in 1787, several years after the Revolutionary War. In addition to addressing the errors that long plagued ...
Lately the complex connection between people and nature has been on my mind, as another semester closes on the course I team-teach in Weber State University’s General Education program. The interdisciplinary course examines the cultural origins of attitudes toward nature and how those views ...
On April 10, the day before my birthday, my husband saw a handwritten sign at the gym: “Tomorrow, April 11th, has the fewest historical events on the calendar, making it officially the most boring day of the year.” Hmph! It’s always been a good day for me. I was the first grandchild on ...
Have you ever noticed that on shows like “Cops,” the first thing officers do when arresting two suspects is separate them, putting them in different police cruisers or interview rooms? There’s a reason for that. Once alone, each person is offered a deal: “Testify against your partner ...
I really, really hate weeds. Especially this time of year. They lay in the ground quietly waiting, conniving, preparing. Then one morning — an explosion. Everywhere. Yellow dandelions popping up under the bushes, binder weed grabbing onto the fence, crabgrass sprawling across the lawn, ...
