(Warning! What follows is essentially a travelogue and may be considered boring and otherwise uninteresting to normal people.) I was in Austin, Texas, last weekend. The motivating reason for being there was a football game. The Cougars and Longhorns played. Part of the interesting background ...

In church last Sunday, I was in a class with the men of the congregation. Our discussion centered on the concept of “poise.” Just so your mind stays on track here, don’t think of any product made for bladder control problems. That product named “Poise” is a sister company to the ...

Trees have been on my mind. I’ve been noticing them as I drive through the neighborhoods of Sanpete. A couple of weeks ago, I planted three trees. I removed a dead peach tree and replaced it. That event about gave me a stroke or some sort of cardiac event. My body isn’t used to that kind ...

Unless you’ve been in a coma (and some of us feel like we have been), you know that the seasons have changed. Autumn is in full swing. Astronomically, the first day of fall was Sept. 23. And here we are in the Halloweeny month of October. I know that some of you love Halloween and love to ...

There’s a change in the air in Sanpete. It’s not hard to detect. Autumn began a week or so ago. Mother Nature has been gradually turning down the thermostat on our outdoor living. Sanpeters who are on the ball are doing their fall work in their yards and gardens. I often wait until spring ...

It’s not too often that I go to the same movie twice in the movie theater in this day and age. I did that more often years ago before the advent of movies being released on VHS tapes and on DVD, and, of course, now on streaming services. I have a friend who I believe saw the movie “Jaws” ...

It occurred to me over the weekend, that right about now, sports nuts seem to be rampant in Sanpete, and everywhere. Call them sports nuts, or fanatics, fans, or maniacs, it all boils down to a ramped-up interest in sports. Of course, a lot of this phenomenon makes sense because this is the ...

As a 24-year-old college student in 1976, I went to London for six months on a study abroad program. There were 30 plus students and we became close and almost like family. We had classroom time, but much of our course work was attending museums, art galleries, historical sites, etc. Some of ...

Sanpete had a big finish for the county fair this past weekend. The nights of rodeo, Mammoth Parade, and the demolition derby were the big events that completed this year’s fair. The “Mammoth Parade” has often been a source of wondering for me. At one point, I wondered if the replica ...

It’s fair time in Sanpete. The 2023 edition of the Sanpete County Fair is underway and wraps up this Saturday. The county fair, you may remember, is one of the three “fairs” that I told my children about as they were growing up. When they complained that something wasn’t fair, I’d ...