By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Listening to a friend’s recent presentation about Utah’s Carmelite monastery—the only monastery left in the state—evoked a wave of memories about Carmelites and my own family.…
Posts published in July 2026
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The 2026 release of Christopher Nolan’s epic film The Odyssey brought back memories of that one time the Greek poet Homer crashed our family trip to Italy and…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Each year July 10 marked the annual anniversary of the founding of Holy Trinity Abbey, the now-closed Trappist monastery in Huntsville in Northern Utah. For as…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were devoted friends who became bitter enemies and then close friends again before they died two hundred years ago on the…