1st 4 Current Events for 2nd Quarter DUE DECEMBER 1st!!!

Students...your first 4 current events on UTAH news stories are due the 1st of December. They are worth 80 points!!

The Moody Brothers in S. Utah

I'm the one on the right...

My Dad and I in Arches NP Summer 1987:

I still remember this trip, I can recall being really, really hot in my corduroy pants and velcro shoes topped off with a sweatshirt. I recall this being one of the trips I started to really -love- the desert. I was 7 years old...


Thanks for showing me the way, Dad.

Sometimes...we so easily take things for granted. Check this out.

This woman was born deaf and receives an implant to allow her to hear. Her husband video tapes the experience...

A Chance Encounter in Utah's Backcountry...a flintknapped knife

I found this flintknapped  knife out on Cedar Mesa last month. I have traveled to Mexico, Honduras, the Cayman Islands, and other amazing locales during the past year, but this knife was by far the most intriguing experience I have had. I imagined the owner living in this land, making a life for themselves, feeling the desert heat, the cold of the winter, the howling winds, and the faucet like rain washing away the dust built up from the weeks before. I imagine the owner thanking the gods for the rain to quench their thirst, to water their crops, and to bring more life to the plants and animals in the region. I can imagine the owner sitting down to skin a rabbit, cooking their food over an open fire and using the knife to cut pieces off the main carcass. I can imagine the owner sitting down, setting the knife down and walking away...forgetting about it until a bald history teacher a thousand years later finds it peeking out of the sand.