Some people are great with kids. My husband, Dave, is one of these. He’s the baby-whisperer. When the two of us were the nursery leaders at church. The kids would often come to sit with us (meaning Dave) during the other meetings. Once, the parents of a little boy who worshipped Dave were ...
Where to start when describing July? We could start with Independence Day — the day 54 brave individuals severed ties with a monarchy that ruled without their consent. How ironic that, 284 years later, almost to the day, the U.S. Supreme Court created a modern-day monarchy by ruling that ...
With the recent anniversary of the overturning Roe v. Wade, I was flooded with memories of the 2017 Women’s March. It was a momentous day and one of the largest protests ever. Nearly half a million people took to the streets of Washington, D.C., millions across the country, thousands here ...
Many Utah Republican politicians promote federalism and gun rights, apparently unaware that the two are completely antithetical. Federalism prioritizes state power over individual rights and liberties. It bestows upon state governments the power to intimately control the lives of those entering ...
The great news is the Ashley National Forest has been saved from a "landscape scale" deforestation plan in which the Forest Service planned to bulldoze in skid trails to log and burn up to 147,000 acres (230 square miles!) of inventoried roadless areas. But when faced with the lawsuit brought ...
I have spent many years trying to understand why Utah has the high violence rates it does toward girls and women. Recently, yet another Utah woman emailed me about the intimate partner violence she has been enduring for over 12 years. But because she has never had cuts and bruises, she didn’t ...
