In 2019, I had the misfortune of having to live for nine months at the Road Home homeless shelter in Salt Lake City, Utah. A massive old warehouse in the heart of the city’s first industrial center, the nearly 100-year-old building was a truly miserable place. Every day in the…

Without dwelling on how homelessness became epidemic, and what is short term vs. long term, I feel that the following suggestions applied together would eliminate homelessness. Not that any of them are easy, not that they aren’t immediately even possible, but we need to ask those in power to consider…

The thing that I find most astonishing about the current president is his childish lack of maturity. While history has no shortage of greedy world leaders, violent world leaders, psychopathic world leaders, bullies, tyrants, and outright monsters, somehow, we wound up with a 74-year-old crybaby. There has been physical immaturity…

Our pets are funny. When our morning alarm goes off, our little cat comes up first, motorboat purr and whiskers announcing her presence as she burrows between us. Our Pomeranian, “Frodo” always waits for the snooze alarm for some reason, but as soon as that goes off, he bounces up…

We are watching a show. It’s important to keep that in mind. It has its villains — Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland, and other supporters of the “liberal, radical left” idea that people have the right peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for…

The Trump administration swooped in and assumed control over coronavirus data on July 15th, re-routing information related to the pandemic away from the Centers for Disease Control to the Department of Health and Human Services. …

The Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp was not an extermination center, there were no gas chambers, no ovens, and the camp had originally been designated for prisoners of war. That all changed in April of 1943 when the SS took over and repurposed the facility to house Jewish prisoners with foreign passports…

Debi Raynor awoke abruptly to the sound of people screaming and the taste of smoke on her lips. The Salt Lake City apartment complex that had become her home after the streets was burning. By nightfall, she found herself homeless once again, setting up a child-sized tent on a patch…