What About the Children? (And Other Dangerous Questions)

It's an overused phrase: "it's all about the children," or "what about the children?" The question I have in all of this is—if you really cared about children, why don’t you do things to promote child welfare instead of hindering it? Before I delve into all this lovely bit of commentary, let me say a …

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The Part That Hasn’t Been Written Yet

So, I'm sure you noticed yesterday’s blog had a lot of raw emotion. I’m not going to apologize for any of it, because it was real. That kind of emotional purging—call it angst or call it blog vomit—is sometimes necessary. It’s what I was feeling, and I’ve been sugarcoating too much for too long. Time …

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Cinco De Momo

So some other random thoughts for a weekday. This is being written on Pioneer Day here in Utah or as we call it Cinco de Momo. It's apparently the day that the settlers arrived and looked down into the Salt Lake Valley for the first time. The fireworks are raining down because why not shoot …

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Two years later and counting…

Good old Facebook—if you use the basic settings, Facebook will remind you of everything that happened on a certain date in a certain year. Most of the time, they're not things that you always want to remember. There was a one-year series of about five or six shows on the Peacock network called *Swedish Death …

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