By Julian Thomas Published in This People Magazine 1995 Intro by Dian Thomas This story is one of my greatest treasures. It was written by my father, Julian Thomas, as part of a series titled Father of Champions. In it, he reflects on my childhood growing [...]
The Spark of Ambition When I was nine, my allowance wouldn’t cover the croquet set and the pogo stick I wanted to buy out of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. I pondered a lot about ways to buy what I wanted. My decision: look for [...]
Cultivating a Manageable Garden for Busy Lives There is one thing you could count on as I grew up, and that was a big, beautiful garden. Where we lived at the Baker Ranger Station in Monticello, Utah, and in Salt Lake City where I moved [...]
Printed in the Deseret News By Julian Thomas I built a trailer in a lot to the side of my mother’s backyard for Norene and me to take to Logan as we would start school to become forest rangers. It was 8 feet wide and 16 [...]
My father was a forest ranger, and my brothers and I were raised at the Baker Ranger Station near Monticello, Utah. It was a kid's paradise. The ranger station was comprised of a section of land that encompassed 240 acres. On the property was our [...]
I had a bike almost before I could push the pedal down. It was a tricycle, and how I loved riding up and down our driveway! At three, anything that moves is really exciting. In a small town one of the biggest benefits for the kids [...]
I have had such an interesting response from my article that I wrote last week. I have decided to follow it up with a few more thoughts, feelings and insights. I do not know the number of people that do not read well but I [...]
When I was nine, my allowance wouldn't cover the items that I wanted to buy out of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. Monticello only had two small grocery stores. The only place we could shop was in a catalog, and we could only shop with [...]
Jared and I were blessed with the good fortune to be born and raised in the breath taking Manti La Salle National Forest in southern, Utah where our father was the forest ranger. I was born just after my parents arrived in Monteicello and Jared [...]
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