By Michael Patrick O’Brien– In September 1988, singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith performed “Love at the Five and Dime” at a Salt Lake City concert. I’d never heard of either her or…
Posts published in September 2021
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I realized early on that I loved writing. This explains the many volumes of childhood “books” and “newspapers” that I “published” and foisted on family, friends,…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Newspapers loved writing about the old Trappist monastery in Huntsville, Utah. They normally reported some version of the same basic story—Holy Trinity Abbey was an odd…
By Gary Topping– To me, the thing that most makes Utah a great place to live is the fact that it lies at the intersection of three major geophysical provinces:…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– When summer draws to a close each year, I recall how—nearly four decades ago—a seven-year-old boy with impaired vision gave me some lasting insight about the…
By Gary Topping– Almost any bucolic setting will have a calming effect on our too-busy, too-complicated lives. Even a cow pasture does it for me, and I’ll go so far…