Thursday, March 4th, 2021
Over the past couple months as an intern writing for the Tooele Transcript Bulletin, I have learned a great deal about the people in Tooele County and how they feel about hot button issues that seem to...
Thursday, February 25th, 2021
When I saw Tooele High School student Emily Wiley’s “Fry Sauce’’ painting, I was immediately overcome by the quality of the painting. I loved how Wiley captured the youthful emotions of the subjects as well as the...
Thursday, February 11th, 2021
A few years ago, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, ulcerative colitis. I won’t go into details, but this disease can be debilitating and causes many issues within my body that I was not previously aware...
Thursday, February 4th, 2021
Whenever I think of all the places in which I’ve lived, a song called “Rock’n Me Baby” — by the Steve Miller Band — always comes to mind. The lyric I’m alluding to is “I went from...
Thursday, January 7th, 2021
I, as well as most of you, remember when the pandemic began. I felt like it arrived overnight and I will admit I was not prepared. One day everything was fine and the next day, the whole...
Thursday, December 17th, 2020
Working on family history sometimes brings interesting discoveries and odd coincidences. Early on I found a relative named Ima Fairy Mantooth. Somebody’s parents had a strange sense of humor. It made me happy that my name isn’t...
Thursday, December 10th, 2020
I’ve read many posts on social media from friends anxious for 2020 to come to a close. Locally there was the COVID-19 pandemic, the Magna earthquake, smoke from western wildfires that reached Utah, protests and social unrest...
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
In the past few weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, I’ve been noticing and thinking about a few things that I wanted to share. The fourth Thursday in November is something that I always look forward to. Somehow,...
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
I guess you could say I am kind of obsessed with autobiographies. Since I was little, I’ve been kind of a “reading nerd”, if you will. During the past few years, I’ve really gotten into reading autobiographies and...
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
I am the proud mother of a few cats and by a few, I mean four. I have a wild black colored baby boy named Panther, a sweet cuddly year-old girl named Bunny, a grumpy large cat named...