You powered through a productive morning, maybe even ate a virtuous lunch. Then, all of a sudden, BAM! It’s 3:07 p.m., and you’ve been staring at the same email for six minutes. Don’t look now, but you’ve been hit with the afternoon droopsies. It’s tempting to use lighthearted, ...

A summer training camp in Vineyard started with one boy and his father, grew by a couple of kids, then spread to a few more. By July, it has become a neighborhood event with upwards of 100 boys and girls participating in speed and agility drills facilitated by volunteer dads three mornings a ...

I have overseen a volunteer crisis team for the past 15 years within Utah. If there’s a suicide or a shooting in a school, or a community needs help, they’ll fly our team out. I’ve been involved with close to 55 youth suicides either as a first responder or as a consultant. In about ...

Cindy Gale from Provo has always valued home arts, particularly sewing. She and her husband Doug have also served in many community and church organizations. When Gale heard about Freedom Kits of Yakima, or FKY, she felt she had found the perfect humanitarian organization and emailed ...

Some of our cucumbers are bitter. I’ve heard that once a plant produces bitter cucumbers it will always produce bitter cucumbers. Is it really a lost cause? Should I pull out the plant? That bitter flavor that you tasted in your cucumber is cucurbitacin, a natural defense compound in ...

The school year that recently ended marked an important milestone in suicide prevention. For 20 years, Hope4Utah has been helping to save lives, and it all began right here in Utah. What started as a suicide prevention program in one Utah County high school 20 years ago has spread to hundreds ...