By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Memorial Day is almost halfway between Mother’s Day (in mid-May) and Father’s Day (in mid-June). It’s the perfect time to remember that I am a living…
Posts published in May 2024
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Some people who live in Utah, but do not belong to the predominant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, feel ostracized. I’ve been lucky to…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– There are fifteen women from the past two centuries—a mother, two grandmothers, four great grands, and eight great/great grands—who by law and blood I can call…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My boyhood home away from home was an old Trappist monastery in Northern Utah which closed in 2017. The Huntsville abbey lives on in many interesting…
By Gary Topping– The writer Wallace Stegner founded a famous creative writing program at Stanford University. Some of its alumni were illustrious: Larry McMurtry, Edward Abbey, Tom McGuane and Ken…