The Write Stuff

Marking our 43rd wedding anniversary a few weeks ago, and then having a landmark birthday has left me mellow and reflective about the passag...

Possibilities A small gray wren, plump from early spring feasting, perched on the trunk of a gnarled old willow still in...

As the years pass, I still miss Grandma Goodding. She died 35 years ago yesterday, and I wasn't even able to go to her funeral. But I th...

Let's say--theoretically, of course--that it's just after the holidays and you've got a doctor's appointment at which you...

Not long after we were married--nearly 43 years ago now--I noticed a phenomenon I hadn't anticipated to come along with in-laws. I disco...

Sometimes I have wondered why two big family-oriented holidays should be so close on the calendar, but as I get older, I'm better able t...

Last Friday night we saw the Utah Shakespeare Festival production of Les Miserables, an audience favorite around the world for thirty years ...