How big is too big?When it comes to patriotism, I just assumed the correct answer would have been, “There’s no such thing as too big.” But as it turns out, at least one unacceptable size is 40-by-80.On Monday, I got an email from Camping World RV Sales. I get these messages on a regular ...
So, is everybody completely choo-chooed out by now?Not me.I was out of town for all the excitement surrounding the transcontinental railroad sesquicentennial, so I missed the “train fatigue” that has apparently set in around here. With dozens upon dozens of events surrounding the May 10 ...
For decades, the small Wyoming town of Evanston meant just one thing to many of us in Northern Utah.Fireworks.As a 13-year-old, back in the early 1970s, I remember when our Boy Scout leaders would stop their Chevy Suburbans — overloaded with gear and teenagers — in Evanston to “get gas” ...
“April showers,” they say, “bring May flowers.”But that’s not all they brought this year. Because they also delivered to me a humbling lesson about kindness and service.Anyone who knows my wife knows two things about her:• Thing One: She’s a very private person, especially ...
Think about the most unexpected plot twists of the last half-century.The world run by monkey overlords in “Planet of the Apes” turned out to be our future Earth. Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker’s daddy. The Bruce Willis character in “The Sixth Sense” was dead all along. And the ...
When I was just a little tyke, I loved the merry-go-round.My father or mother would pick me up, wade into a herd of colorfully painted wooden horses, lift me onto the saddle of one of them and wrap a loose leather strap around my waist for a “seat belt.” I’d then grip tightly the brass ...
Apparently, at some point in the past decade, the voters of Utah quietly elected God to Congress.Which you’d think would make our lives so much easier. And yet ...On Tuesday, our own Sen. Mike Lee, R-Tool, stood before Congress and deigned to give America the simple solution to all of ...
Huh.Go figure, more senseless gun deaths.Nine days ago, a 28-year-old Australian man used a small arsenal of firearms to murder 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. In the wake of this unimaginable horror, prime minister Jacinda Adern referred to it as her country’s ...
By now, the verbal cage match between Oklahoma City Thunder basketball player Russell Westbrook and Utah Jazz fan Shane Keisel has been hashed and re-hashed to the point where there’s probably not much else left to say.Other than, “Good work, everyone.”Because I must confess: With the ...
How does one become a professional photojournalist at the Standard-Examiner?For Samantha Madar, who just started working at the newspaper on Friday, it all started with a bright pink camera.“I struggled in school when I was little, but then I got my first camera,” Madar says, before ...
