John Rasmuson

Utah's early pickleball evangelizers paved the way for the fast-growing sport.

Opinion

• By John Rasmuson
• I first hit pickleballs in Wyoming in 2010. I was in the Sheridan YMCA gym, where two courts had been delineated on the floor in red tape.
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Books are hip for both decorating and political grandstanding, but they're even better if you read them.

Opinion

• By John Rasmuson
• I have friends who renovated their condo just before the COVID pandemic began
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Rizz up your grammar with 2023's 'words of the year'

Opinion

• By John Rasmuson
• In awarding this year's Nobel Literature Prize to Jon Fosse, the Nobel committee cited the Norwegian writer's "sensitive language that probes the limits of words."
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Lace up your shoes—whatever the brand—and seize the day

Opinion

• By John Rasmuson
• Not since reading John Keats' and Percy Shelley's iconic poems in college had I given a moment's thought to an ode.
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A 'Class of '63' alum on 60 years of life since leaving Salt Lake City's Highland High School

Opinion

• By John Rasmuson
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One 'died-in-the-wool' boomer's tricks for keeping up with Gen Z and millennial evolution of the English language.

Rampant Ussification

• By John Rasmuson
• The column, which has run for years, draws on his Greek lineage, insider knowledge of all things Utah and the writer's no-holds-barred "saltussy.
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Connect with nature, history and Thoreau walking Salt Lake City streets.

Walking the Walk

• By John Rasmuson
• "You must walk like a camel, which is said to be the only beast which ruminates when walking."—Henry David Thoreau
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Weird Science

• By John Rasmuson
• Maybe a pipeline, seawall or quantum computer will do the trick? Or a machine that will suck carbon dioxide out of the troposphere? It's just a matter of time.
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High School Requiem

• By John Rasmuson
• I read the news today, oh boy! Highland High School may be going away.
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