Raising kids is the world’s toughest job. It doesn’t help that the timing always seems off. It starts when they’re born. You’ve just been through the most traumatic physical event of your life to that point, and now, as you limp back home, you’re saddled with the assignment of 24/7 ...

In Utah politics, the letter “R” on the ballot carries enormous weight. Our state is one of the most Republican in the nation, and for good reason: Utahns value limited government, personal responsibility, free enterprise, and strong families. Voters trust that when someone runs as a ...

Earlier this summer, my mother pulled out a wicker basket of old family photos, dating back to her childhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1930s and 1940s. Albuquerque was a hot, dry place then, and climate change means it’s hotter and drier every year. Here in Utah it’s been ...

When our daughter was young, we lived in Houston, Texas. Not wanting to lose touch with family and friends who all missed our little Catherine (not so much us, apparently), I created a website where I posted our doings that month. I didn’t consider the fact that there might be some things ...

When I used to live in Colorado, I noticed a strange pattern at trailheads. Some had colorful piles of bagged dog poop stacked around the signposts, while others were perfectly clean. What was striking was the absence of in-between cases: There were either a lot of bags or none at all. I ...

There is a way to eliminate those bugs destroying your gardens ... A few weeks ago, my husband and I went to the Natural History Museum of Utah’s Bugfest — an annual event that introduces us humans to the wriggling masses of critters with whom we share this planet. Through dozens of ...