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My son and his wife have three kids and a golden retriever. Now on a first-name basis with UPS and FedEx carriers, they have accumulated so much stuff that they are no longer able to fit the cars in the garage.

I don't know about you, but the drumbeat of bad news earlier this year left me bone-weary and grouchy. With our savings evaporating...

A few years ago, my wife and I bought a small house. It was built in 1929. The closets were tiny and the bathroom was, well, closet-sized. Evidently, people in the 1920s had limited wardrobes...

In Esquire a while ago, Tom Chiarella ran down a list of “75 skills every man should master.” Of course, it is merely his opinion. And the subject lacks immediacy. Nevertheless, I found a few of Chiarella’s essential skills worth a comment.

As tributes to Larry Miller poured into the news media following his death on Feb. 20, most focused on Miller's prowess as a shrewd businessman and owner of the Utah Jazz. Privately, I heard very different remembrances. Someone told me how, just a couple of weeks before Miller's death, a substantial check had arrived from Larry H.

It happens twice a year. Some TV reporter announces the circus is in town and we soon see video of Barnum

Given his passion for motorcycles, I don’t doubt the guv is a regular speed demon on the open road. I was referring to Huntsman’s habit of hoarding his political capital and playing it far too safe on important issues. He had popularity ratings at that time beyond 70 percent.

By most measures of small-business success in Utah, Tony Chlepas would be in the Hall of Fame. His mother, the late Helen Chlepas, was widowed with her four children still in grade school. In the early 70s, Helen secured a small loan to buy a ramshackle little tavern near the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon.

First, a promise: This is not a column about the politics of Sarah Palin. Still, about that Tina Fey-does-Palin send up on Saturday Night Live last week: It was hysterical. Speaking of hysteria, I think I finally get whats going on with all the shero worship of the GOP veep candidate.