This Sunday is World Gratitude Day and I can’t think of a better thing to turn our attention to right now, given the unsettling events of the past few weeks. As a health care professional, I have been fascinated by a number of studies that have demonstrated tangible benefits from practicing ...

This year being the 50th anniversary of the movie, JAWS, it seems like the perfect time to regale you all with my shark encounter. Since Utah is landlocked, I hadn’t had any live connections before. I’d visited the ocean a few times on vacation but mostly found seaweed. The closest I’d ...

What do you say to young people when someone they follow and believe in is gunned down by another young person who disagrees with his point of view? I’ve found myself either listening to or involved in discussions about this topic. The question haunts every parent or influencer of every ...

My coffee party group last Friday had the honor of hosting for an hour plus Representative Blake Moore (Utah First Congressional District). It was a very civil, polite, and engaging meeting as we asked four main questions and Blake (he told everyone to call him Blake) took some time to answer ...

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty In my earlier editorial ...

Now that Dr. Andrea Easter-Pilcher is no longer employed at Weber State University and is no longer my boss, I can finally say what I really think about her. I’ll begin by stating publicly that I didn’t think it was a good idea to hire her as dean of the university’s College of Science. ...