By Marianna Hopkins (Guest Contributor)– In 1954, when I was five years old, I woke to a hysterically crying mother who had just learned from a phone call that her…
Posts published in February 2021
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I will never forget a haunting summer in a trailer park in the early 1980s, when suicide lived just down the road. In the early 1980s,…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– On the 1970s Catholic school lawns and the 1980s rooftops of my Ogden, Utah hometown, I proved beyond a reasonable doubt that I was meant to…
By Gary Topping– I was as appalled as most other Americans at the sight of the assault on our nation’s capitol on January 6, 2021. Not only is it a…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Anyone who thinks February is defined by presidents, valentines, or groundhogs has never spent any time around a parochial school during Catholic auction season. Just after…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK), visited Utah 35 years ago this week. I was just 24 years…