By Michael Patrick O’Brien– One day, two ghost lawyers spirited me out of my office during lunchtime and dropped me off on Salt Lake City’s downtown streets so I might…
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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– One strange day, the apparitions of my law firm progenitors—Joseph Rawlins and William Dickson—forced me from a quiet solo lunch in my office and onto the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As I was eating lunch alone in my law office one day, the ghosts of my long dead professional ancestors—Joseph Rawlins and William Dickson—appeared from nowhere.…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The most bizarre and memorable noon hour at my law office in downtown Salt Lake City started with no hint whatsoever of the remarkable events about…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– July is rodeo season in Utah, as well as the month for the raucous Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona made famous by Ernest Hemingway in…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I had an unusual boyhood. After a painful family divorce in the 1970s, I grew up without a traditional father. My surrogate fathers were Trappist monks.…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Note: this is part 2 of a two part series about the interfaith out reach of the Utah monks. For part one, see Talking the Talk:…
By Gary Topping– (Editor’s note: on June 1, 2023, Gary wrote about his general Sanpete County memories.) For a period of some weeks in 1978 I lived in a dorm…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A few weeks ago, my friend Joel Campbell, a BYU journalism professor, asked me to give a talk about how the Utah Trappist monks from Huntsville…
By Gary Topping– When you are driving down Highway 89 and you cross the border into Sanpete County, Utah, you can feel the clocks moving more slowly. The past is…