Most of the time when I bring up a conversation with someone over the topic of “daddy issues,” they seem to follow it with a slight giggle. The words do […]
Looking beyond “daddy issues”
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So long for now, but not farewell
As I look back on my time as a student at Weber State, I wonder where the time has gone. It feels like yesterday that a wide-eyed 18-year-old just fresh […]
Weber graduates are in this together
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Four years ago, I sat down for my first class at Weber State. It was intro to literature, and my professor didn’t make us go around the room to share […]
Real men shave with an axe and drive cement trucks
I was lifting weights at the gym this morning, and a man roughly my age walked in behind me as I was doing dumbbell bicep curls. He walked up to […]
No scholarship for this WSU athlete
I began my journey at Weber State University in the summer of 2016. The only reason I came to Weber State specifically was because I was told I was being […]
Shutting the door on Mormon interviews
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It’s 2010, and I’m sitting behind a big desk with a list of sins to confess. My day of reckoning has come. The man on the other side of the […]
“13 Reasons Why” You shouldn’t watch this
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I’ve seen all 26 episodes. I watched the first season on recommendations from people close to me and chose to watch the recently released second season within two days of […]
How Utah Pride events signify both celebration and trepidation
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On June 3, thousands of Utahns converged in Salt Lake City for the annual Utah Pride Parade. What began as a small gathering in a park in 1974 has evolved […]
A state of crisis
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I was born and raised in Syracuse, five minutes from the Great Salt Lake. I was carted around on camping trips and bike rides around Southern Utah with my dad […]
Storytelling: Changing the world one brain at a time
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is perhaps one of the most important books in American history. Enraged by the injustices perpetrated against African American slaves and laws that […]