Mom would have loved my 6-year-old granddaughter Emily, because in a lot of ways Mom WAS Emily — or Emily is Mom, depending on how you look at it.It isn’t a “look” thing. Mom had black hair and olive skin — Emily is as fair and blonde as they come. It’s more of an attitude thing.Mom ...

Orem resident and civic activist Aaron Campbell hijacked the phone of Mayor Jim Evans last week to send out a "robocall" to the city about the possibility of a tax increase. A robocall is one of those automated messages frequently used by political candidates that I get faked out on every time. ...

You've heard of the bully pulpit. It's the power of a president to seize center stage at will to address a national audience whenever he wants to galvanize public opinion on an issue. Well, if Mitt Romney is elected, the term bully pulpit will take on a whole new meaning.Everybody knows by now ...

To tell you the whole, complete, honest truth, I didn’t know that her name was Edith until I read it in her obituary a few years ago. For a whole group of friends coming of age together during the early 1970s, she was always just “Mom.”Technically, she was Dave’s mom, and I’m pretty ...

Daily Herald reporter Caleb Warnock thought that my previous post was too hard on the newly-minted Utah poet laureate and submitted a rebuttal. Now, I don't want any of our reporters to be carrying around painful baggage like this, so I figure the best thing is to let him vent. I can always ...

So I’m sitting on my balcony, enjoying the circus being performed in the courtyard below. Never mind that we don’t have a balcony, much less a courtyard. And we almost never have a circus in the yard (at least, not since the last time Anita’s brother brought his grandkids over). This was ...