POSTED // May 2,2012 - While on a recent overseas vacation, I inquired of some fellow travelers, “How do you think your life will change when you go home?” Their blank stares suggested that their lives were good, and they hoped like hell that nothing would change.

POSTED // Apr 27,2012 - The crossword puzzle in this week's issue was inadvertantly printed with strange characters instead of the usual Arabic numbers. For an extra-challenging puzzle, you can figure out which symbol corre

POSTED // Apr 26,2012 - The joke is on Utah girls. Fed a fairy tale about motherhood from the time we’re handed our first Baby Alives and Easy-Bake Ovens ...

POSTED // Apr 18,2012 - I think a well-lived life needs at least one transformative moment. What I have in mind is the uncommon, the extraordinary, the act of will that distinguishes one life from others and is distinguishing in and of itself.

POSTED // Apr 11,2012 - For 15 years, I lived in a house in Massachusetts that was heated by a woodstove instead of a furnace.

POSTED // Apr 4,2012 - Richard Louv’s lecture keynoted a symposium called Exuberant Sustainability, sponsored by the University’s Office of Sustainability. So I was startled when the first words he spoke disparaged the noun “sustainability.” Louv said that the word has been watered down over the years to the point it suggests a kind of stasis.

POSTED // Mar 29,2012 - Walking along the faux creek bed prior to City Creek’s grand opening, gazing up at the retractable glass roof, even the most jaded reporters were wide-eyed and curious. The creek, after all, is stocked with trout that were no doubt waiting for their cue to bob to the surface as mall developer and CEO Robert Taubman led a coterie of media around the mall.

POSTED // Mar 22,2012 - Kara Miller, a teacher at Babson College in Massachusetts, wrote an op-ed in The Boston Globe describing students whose lack of preparation for college-level work was exacerbated by their laziness. &l

POSTED // Mar 7,2012 - Chuck and Judy Cox have been giving West Valley City Police the benefit of the doubt for two years.

POSTED // Feb 29,2012 - A year ago, northeastern Japan was rocked by the fourth-largest earthquake ever recorded. It triggered a massive tidal wave that swallowed entire cities and swamped the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down, causing explosions and fires that spewed radioactive contaminants that mostly headed west by air and sea toward the United States.