Everyone’s life is unique. While it’s true that many of our lives have similarities, there are about 8.3 billion people on the planet with individual life stories. Everyone has a story. You might be thinking, “Thank you Captain Obvious - so what?” Well, I do understand that ...

I have recently had reason to contemplate some of the lyrics of a song by the band Bachman- Turner Overdrive. It’s the rock’n’roll song “Takin’ Care of Business.” Randy Bachman wrote the song. Sanpete’s own Adam Reader aka “the Professor of Rock” informed me recently that ...

Time was, there was no such thing as daylight-saving time. Many of us say “daylight savings” time with an “s” on the end. I looked it up to see if I was using it correctly. Technically, to be correct, there is no “s” — it’s singular. It has to do with it being an adjective, ...

On Valentine’s Day, after the afternoon BYU vs. Colorado basketball game, we drove to the Red Lobster restaurant. We naively thought that we might be able to slip in there and get seated at a table for two in a corner. There was a mob of people there. We didn’t even get close to the hosting ...

I read somewhere recently (a meme on the internet, I suspect), that “The First 70 Years of Childhood Are Always the Hardest!” It reminded me of one of my favorite obituaries. Some of you, perhaps, like me and my wife, have acquired the hobby of recreational death notice reading. Maybe that ...

Occasionally, perhaps more often than not, what appears in this column is a rambling “stream of consciousness” category of writing. A few of you unfamiliar with this style might be tempted to look it up. If you really want to research it for real, fine, do it. For the rest of you who are ...