I 'm well aware of the old saying, “fish and visitors stink after three days.” I've been a visitor in Pennsylvania for eight days ...

A story in the Salt Lake Tribune for Tuesday, December 24, means a great Christmas for gay people and their friends, families and supporter...

Some recent stories have made the local news that remind me I live in a place which can be a world unto itself. Sometimes we in Utah are mem...

S aturday, December 14 is the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty children and six adults includin...

Alec Guinness as my favorite ghost. O f all the Christmas stories I like Dickens’ A Christmas Carol the best. And of the characters i...

I’ve been looking for five or six days for my eyeglasses, which have a gold-colored wire frame. They are in my house somewhere, I’m 100% ce...

O bituaries for my former high school classmates are coming faster and closer together as time goes on. This obit is for one of my class...

A s a Baby Boomer I’m just one more of millions who remember where we were and what we were doing on that day Kennedy was killed. For th...

A big murder trial wrapped up recently in Salt Lake City. It was one of those trials that capture national attention, and the November 13 e...

Mad magazine takes the whole history of sex, from Adam to now, and compresses it down to a few pages. Funny history, funny subject! Copyr...

I like to write, and I write this blog to be read by others. I also like to read good writing. It gives me intense pleasure, but it is also ...

For Halloween I present a short and shuddery tale by master storyteller Richard Matheson. Matheson, born in 1926, died this year, and in his...

A Tourism Department photo of the alien landscape of Goblin Valley. Y ou might have seen the YouTube video showing some jerks destroyin...

Y esterday I completed the second half of a ritual I have performed each year since 1975. I climb a ladder to the roof of my suburban split-...

Years ago I found the first edition of a 1941 anthology, The Other Worlds , in a Salvation Army thrift store in California. It reprints s...

Anthony Hopkins binge-watched the five seasons of Breaking Bad , and wrote star Bryan Cranston an e-mail to tell him what he thought of t...