While visiting my mom, my son asked, "Why do I have to make my bed at Grandma's house?" I smoothed the quilt over the mattress and answered without thinking, "Because Grandma likes it neat and she deserves a nice space." My response surprised me. What did being tidy have to do with ...
In the pantheon of parental duties, shopping for school supplies stands alone. At the tripart crossroads of "least enjoyable," "most expensive" and "least negotiable," it is an intrinsic part of life in late summer, and it has been since I was a kid in the Cretaceous era. I remember it much ...
Starting her own curriculum whose products have been used by millions of people was not on Jenny Phillips' agenda when she decided to homeschool her kids more than a decade ago. The Lehi resident and former musician found the existing homeschool curricula were not created by people who ...
A 24-year-old man was killed in an auto-pedestrian accident in Orem on Monday afternoon. According to Orem police, the man was struck by a vehicle at the 700 East University Parkway intersection at 12:40 p.m. First responders initiated life-saving measures but the man was pronounced dead at ...
Can I claim to have predicted, way back in 1988, the result of Michigan's fiercely contested Democratic primary for U.S. senator this week? The developments that have made Abdul El-Sayed -- who lost the 2018 gubernatorial primary to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) by 20 percentage points -- ...
A man was killed Friday after an aircraft he was piloting went down in Utah Lake near Utah Lake State Park in Provo. The man was identified in a family fundraiser as Chase Day. Also on board was a female passenger, who sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to a local ...
