By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I may be the biggest fan of Northern Utah’s Ogden Valley who never lived there. As a result, during a recent COVID-19 sheltering-at-home-and-catching-up-on-my-reading phase, I cracked…
Posts published in October 2020
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Almost 50 years ago, on October 19, 1972, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (now Saint Teresa of Kolkata) visited the old Trappist monastery in Huntsville. Fortunately, I…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Almost 50 years ago, on October 19, 1972, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (aka Saint Teresa of Kolkata) visited the now-closed Trappist monastery in Huntsville. She was…
By Gary Topping– For most couples, their wedding night is one of the happiest events of their life, but it rarely makes the newspaper. My parents’ wedded bliss lasted less…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– For our 50th birthday gifts, my wife Vicki and I each chose a dream destination trip. For my golden birth anniversary we flew over the Atlantic…
By Gary Topping– Keith Topping, my brother, was three years younger than I, but a generation older. We never got along well as kids, and when the cultural revolution of…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– There was only one place in Utah, perhaps only one in the whole world, where you could sit on an old church bench, drink a beer,…