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Am I still a daughter, now that Millie is gone?
My mom died over a year ago. Her parents, siblings and husband preceded her, so as her only child, the duty of handling all her final...
Apr 10, 20053 min read
Democracy in action: A dispatch from the front line
After attending a memorial service in Tucson last week, I elected to stay and enjoy the city and the magnificent, flowering desert. On...
Mar 27, 20053 min read
Kids teach us a lesson in Holocaust remembrance
The first I heard of the Holocaust was in 1971 on one of the last days of my fifth-grade year. We kids wore our dads' old button-down...
Mar 6, 20053 min read
Seuss's’ politics would not, could not, be put in a box
The reclusive Theodor Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss, made it to age 73 before being asked to deliver a commencement address. Then Lake...
Mar 4, 20054 min read
Tutors teach themselves, too
Last fall I made a new friend named Hugo. Soon after, he turned 12. I’ve seen him every week since then, when we get together to study...
Feb 27, 20054 min read
Kids can teach adults, in life and film
The other night in a darkened room, I met two groups of young people with very different stories. The first teenagers were from...
Jan 30, 20053 min read
Inauguration already? I'm still busy apologizing for the election
Next week will be tough for 49 percent of America. The people who didn’t vote for George W. Bush are going to get edgy again now that...
Jan 16, 20053 min read
Granni’s gifts of love
When I was 11, my grandmother, whom I called Granni, gave me her diamond engagement ring. She was tired of wearing it. She had been a...
Dec 26, 20043 min read
Nobel prize winner finds a novel way to work for peace
She says, “I would visit a stream next to our home to fetch water for my mother. I would drink water straight from the stream. Playing...
Dec 19, 20044 min read
It’s Thanksgiving and everyone’s invited
For my husband, Chris, and me, 1987 was our first Thanksgiving together. We had rented a little house on 2nd Avenue, and with both sets...
Nov 25, 20044 min read
I’ll keep my Trib, in spite of that editorial
I’ve always been interested in newspapers. Maybe it started when, as a little kid, I noticed that every morning we got this roll of gray...
Oct 31, 20043 min read
The political weather report: It’s nasty out there
The climate. When we say it now, we don’t mean the weather. We don’t mean Salt Lake City’s temperate October, its blue skies, the...
Oct 17, 20043 min read
It was what the Carters left behind that spoke most eloquently
“Lydia, this is Jimmy Carter. I used to be president of the United States, as you well remember. I appreciate your friendship toward me....
Oct 3, 20044 min read
A sign of racism rises in my Salt Lake neighborhood
A racist billboard has appeared not far from my home. I first spotted it a couple of weeks ago. My initial reaction was revulsion. ...
Sep 26, 20044 min read
Living and laughing in the face of a dread disease
Jean has a laugh so loud and so infectious that you can’t help but laugh with her, and she laughs all the time. When I first met her,...
Aug 29, 20044 min read