life

  • Spring Into Step: My Spring Action Guide

    Winter is done. Let’s enjoy the sun: Yes, this title is a pun. Winter is finally over, the weather is warming up, and the snow has finally stopped (except for the occasional snow flurry). Utah’s weather being as unpredictable as it gets, we have rain, sleet, sun, and snow all in one day during spring.

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  • What “Better” Means

    What “Better” Means

    Better Doesn’t Mean “Good”. I never really thought about it before, but somewhere along the way we started to equate “better” with “good”. But, “better” and “good” aren’t the same thing. We know that, yet how often we tell our sick friends and family “get better soon!” Obviously we want our loved ones to feel

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  • Observations On a Late Night Drive

    Being inside your car is like being in your own separate world. It’s a small, temporary, transitional space. It’s even more intimate that someone’s home. In a car you go to work, school, date nights, and home. You use it to escape, to come back, to leave and to return. It is how we get

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  • Finals Week: a poem

    Finals Week: a poem

    *Inspired by a walk through campus during finals week.*   Finals Week: A Poem   The smell of coffee and desperation is in the air. All along hallways students frantically thumb through textbooks, Mutter over notebooks, And curse over flashcards. Students pass-out on the floor, Backpacks used as pillows and jackets as blankets. I walk

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  • Grandpa’s Stories

    Grandpa’s Stories

    My favorite Holiday is fast approaching- THANKSGIVING! In honor of this family-gathering Holiday I thought a little family-centered poem would be in order.   A family tradition Of our own making- Grandpa’s stories told at each gathering   Tales of misadventure: Of a child, Marine, father, and grandpa, Delight and entertain the growing clan.  

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  • Solar Eclipse

    Solar Eclipse

    Solar Eclipse: 2017 I have never seen the lawn so full. Groups of friends and entire families are sprawled across the grass starting into the sun through paper sun-filtering glasses. The sky was clear and blue. There was not a cloud to be seen. It was hot and bright: as it usually is in late

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