When I was seven years old growing up in Orem, I remember driving past Utah Valley University and thinking: college isn’t for kids like me. My dad worked in construction, my mom cleaned houses, and no one in my family had gone to college. A university degree felt like a distant dream that ...

Have you heard how young people suffer now? Scroll TikTok, Instagram, etc., you see the same message: "Young people today can't get ahead!" One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, "A family could own a home, a car and send their kids to college, all on one ...

The nation is rightly traumatized by the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk. The media is filled, also rightly, with give and take trying to understand what can and should be done so that we don't see more of the same. But unfortunately, much of the expression that I hear is informed ...

I got called "Georgia" by one of my son's friends the other day. I wasn't insulted -- I know from firsthand experience that kids nowadays have a startling familiarity with adults. My own son and his cousin, both 6 years old, once walked up to my husband's 70-year-old uncle when they saw him ...

The first victims of the Nazi efforts to kill everyone who disagreed with them were people with disabilities. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, more than 250,000 people who had physical or mental disabilities were killed. This included 5,000 children. The Nazi government ...

Staring into the faces of my cousins at a funeral for one of them made me realize how much I love these people whom I never chose to be related to, but can’t imagine my childhood without them in it. My deceased first cousin was actually a twin. His family, like mine, had lots of kids. ...