The New Yorker for February 27, 2017, has an article, “That's what you think” by Elizabeth Kolbert. It is why humans think the way we ...

(You all know how to click on a picture to make it bigger.) Years ago, watching the PBS series, The Last Place on Earth , the story of...

I am writing this just one month since Donald Trump took the oath of office. With the constant uproar coming from Washington it has seemed...

January 19, 2017 I know my story sounds crazy, but I need to get it down before I forget everything. This document will be my only r...

Today is another anniversary for me. I have kept it in memory for 40 years. Because my wife was pregnant I quit smoking cigarettes on Januar...

On a day in 1956, while Mom did her grocery shopping, I passed the time waiting for her by looking at the paperback book rack. I found The M...

Have you tried looking up friends from your past on Facebook? Maybe old girlfriends or boyfriends? Recently I wrote down a list of names I c...

”We won in a landslide!” It’s been a month now since the presidential election. Are you over it yet? I guess I am, although it was a sh...

Fifty years is a long time. Five decades. Break it down: in months fifty years is 600 months; in weeks it is 2600 weeks; in days (give or ...

This letter appeared in my local newspaper yesterday. Copyright © 2016 The Salt Lake Tribune Ugh. Gloating! I couldn’t stand it. Th...

Yesterday I saw an obituary for a former fellow school district employee, Brent, who died at age 67. Brent was two years younger than me, ...

After all of the incivility and trash-talking of the 2016 election cycle, and before that the years of the continuous din of disaffected and...

Jack T Chick died last month. He was 92, and he was religious in that old-time religion way. He was not shy about telling everyone who didn’...

Armed with a $5.00 coupon Sally and I went for lunch at Mimi’s restaurant. Our server, whose name I didn’t get, I named “Rosie” in my mind. ...

      “I won’t give up,” answered Pete, digging again near the foundation in back of the house. “I know the money is here somewhere. You’v...