By Gary Topping– What I remember most vividly is my wader boots shuffling through the colorful leaves that were already beginning to fall along the river banks. And then there…
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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The recipe for a perfect day in Italy? Try a heaping cup full of Assisi, add two large spoonfuls of Saints Francis and Clare, include a…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The COVID-19-delayed date of September 5, 2020 is not the only unusual development this year regarding the Kentucky Derby. I also recently learned that the annual…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My current writing project involves documenting the wonderful friendships that developed between the Utah Trappist monks and their Huntsville neighbors, many of them Latter-Day Saints. The…
By Gary Topping– I spent most of my working life in downtown Salt Lake City—in fact, in some of the city’s roughest districts. Part of my life, almost daily, was…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– It’s not every day you get to take a summer road trip, even if it is just for a couple of hours, with a Trappist monk.…
By Marianna Hopkins (Guest Contributor)– August 2020 is no time to question anyone’s anguish. After all, our world is filled with worries over a global pandemic and how it should…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My how time flies…Beethoven is 250 years old in 2020! I cannot let such a landmark birthday pass by unnoticed. After all, he wrote the crescendo…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The Summer of 2020 has delivered both nightmares and dreams. Not even my overactive imagination could conjure up the scenario where I sign my first book…
By Gary Topping– (Editor’s note: It’s lake monster week on The Boy Monk blog. On Monday, Mike O’Brien blogged about his admiration for an 1868 report about the Bear Lake…