Last Friday, most everyone on the Internet was jawing on about how it was 11-11-11. We don’t really get what was supposed to be so extra interesting and magical about that particular date, other than the fact that it was the same number repeated three times. We suppose you could make some kind of a […]
Zora Neale Hurston once said, “You cannot know who you are without knowing where you are.” Most of the time, I know where I am. Most of the time, I’m in the library. Last week, as I was studying and writing, I kept getting distracted. Friends saw me and came to visit. A YouTube video […]
So you made it through Monday. Now what? Procrastination has a way of gripping any college student…so give in to it. Take a trip on a tangent with us, and put off your week for one more day. My grandfather had a saying, “When you decide to have a kid, you decide a lot […]
On Halloween, I saw some UVU students in blackface. This is an open letter to them. As my students will tell you, it’s rare for me to be speechless. But when I saw you on campus on Halloween, wearing brown face paint and huge Afro wigs, I was unable to form words. Now that […]
For students with 80 plus credits, registration opened up on Oct. 31 at 12:00 a.m. Many students, including myself, were registering for their final semester here at UVU. They will be graduating in the spring. Like gamblers on payday, eagerly flocking to a casino door, my fellow seniors and I jumped online, waiting for […]
The enigmatic posters that have dotted Utah Valley since late summer read only “11.11.11,” but those six digits have the local music scene in a tizzy. On Nov. 11, local band The Moth & the Flame debut their first album, “Self Titled.” Co-founders Brandon Garbett and Matt Robbins met in a band and soon […]
When you gotta go, you gotta go. But next time patience wears thin because of a short wait for a toilet or urinal, take a moment to put things into perspective. There are plenty of well-known restroom and hygiene rules to follow that will help us avoid sickness, death and physical discomfort. There are […]
“Are you black?” Entertaining as it’s been to just watch, Joey’s argument with his friend about racism has brought up Darwin, The Velvet Underground and a beer or two, and now he means to bring me up as well. But Joey, a former UVU student who was born in Memphis, means to shake […]
The Celtic people believed that the veil between this world and the realm of the spirits was gossamer-thin around this time of year. Like, poke it with your finger and open a whole psycho-ethereal conduit. During Samhain, the annual harvest festival that later evolved into Halloween, Celts would carry an ember from an honorific bonfire […]
I am a Mac person. I conducted research for this article on my iPhone as I waited to pick my kids up from school and wrote it using the iMac in my office while listening to music on my iPod. As a Mac person, when I heard that Steve Jobs had passed away […]