A Rocky Start to Learning For someone who did not like to read and write, life has really changed. When I was called in high school to the counselor’s office after taking an aptitude test, my counselor told me not to go on to college, [...]
Permanent weight-loss is not a diet, it is a lifestyle change. There is no one "magic bullet." Instead, it's a matter of consistently incorporating a number of steps that include exercise, eating right and accountability. It's like leading a symphony: You've got to have all [...]
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union thrust the world into a new age. The success of launching the satellite Sputnik into an orbit around the earth was the start of the great space race. They followed their success just thirty days later by launching Sputnik [...]
The following summer, I was seventeen, which meant I was old enough to return to my beloved Brighton camp to work for the summer. It didn’t matter to me that I was employed as a kitchen debutante (KD), one of six responsible for ensuring the kitchen [...]
In 1957, just after I had finished sixth grade, our small world turned upside down too. My father was transferred from our paradise in Monticello to the big world of Salt Lake City. He would become the ranger in the much more populated Wasatch National Forest [...]
The second grade was extremely painful. I was emotionally wounded, and the wounds were very deep. From then on, every day in school I had a problem with reading, writing, and spelling, as I was never very good at any of them. Whenever I was placed [...]
The end of summer meant the start of school. Attending school was fun for me, but it also provided the only dark spot in my young life. The school was located on the main road through town, which was a state highway. To help make sure [...]
Hyland Hotel Kathleen Summers, born just two and a half months before me, was my very best friend when I was growing up. She lived at the Hyland Hotel, a small hotel in Monticello that had nine rooms to rent. The foundation and first floor of [...]
The Lone Ranger of the Manti-La Sal Forest was my idol. My father, Julian Thomas, spent most of his life in a green khaki shirt, proudly wearing a forest service pin. His job was to keep the mountains from eroding under the pounding of heavy spring [...]
When I was growing up in Monticello, there were two stores, two gas stations, and a movie theater. The only school accommodated all of the grades for many years until a new high school was built. I loved the small, white one-room [...]
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