I have an elderly aunt who was diagnosed with breast cancer many years ago. She was treated and remained cancer-free for years. But I also had a next-door neighbor who got the same diagnosis. She was treated, but succumbed to the disease not too long after.My experience is not unique. Those of ...

<p class="p1">It isn’t that I don’t like jewelry. Rather, it appears that jewelry doesn’t like me.</p><p class="p1">I don’t know what it is, but for some reason, jewelry and I do not get along. I accidentally destroyed the first watch that I ...

<p class="p1">There will be a tiny baby sprawled comfortably in Beth’s lap during Thanksgiving dinner this year.</p><p class="p1">That’s not all that unusual. She has eight nieces and nephews who have invaded her lap space from time to time during ...

Somebody has to ask the obvious question: Now that the Republicans did not capture the U.S. Senate, and Mitt Romney was defeated for president, what will Sen. Orrin Hatch's new pitch to voters be?In January, Hatch will not become the chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee -- which ...

I recently received this rhyming (more or less) screed from a reader who seems to have taken Mitt Romney's loss to Barack Obama a bit too seriously:"God help us, the Antichrist has been re-elected / Those of us that are older will soon be selected / for death, as rationed health care has its ...

Having spent 33 years in the newspaper industry, I am well acquainted with headline errors and misleading ambiguities. So I ought to be sympathetic when somebody commits one of these sins. And I am, I really am. But I still got a chuckle from Rocky Mountain Power's recent advertisement inviting ...

<p class="p1">Affordability these days is near an all-time high.</p><p class="p1">Today's real estate market offers the wonderful combination of low interest rates and low prices, which almost never happens. The "normal" scenario is that when interest ...

<p class="p1"> </p><p class="p2">Election year jitters could be responsible for a slight drop in the number of single-family home sales in October from September's activity.</p><p class="p1">More than one potential buyer has ...

<p class="p1">On the day after Election Day, I left the country.</p><p class="p1">And no, there is no connection between the two events.</p><p class="p1">More than a year ago, Anita and I decided to celebrate our 35th wedding ...

Tuesday night marked the end of a long and hard-fought campaign season for many, and while Utah is by no means a swing state, there were some heavily-contested races in the state that added some excitement to the evening. Election nights can be a bit of a thrill for journalists. There is so ...