The time between visits back to Utah seems to get longer and longer. I’m settling in to a good life here in Arizona, and traveling back just gets harder. The last time I was in Utah was for our family Christmas party last year and the Celebration of Life for my Uncle Gene that lost…
Tag: Spring in Utah
Get Air!
It’s a perfect Spring day in the SLC. Sunday morning coffee and breakfast is out of the way, and Cbug, crazylegs and myself are wondering what we should do to fill out the rest of our day until the family dinner later. “Ever been to a trampoline park?” Of course my answer is no, so…
a small town chalk festival
The older one gets, the more you realize just how small your childhood town is, especially when you return home. The idyllic Main Street of Bountiful, Utah, on a beautiful Spring day in May becomes home to the Chalk Festival. It showcases local talents from the schools in the area as they draw in…
The Lantern Festival
The sun was setting in the Utah desert, clouds filling up with shades of pink and orange as we slowly made our way out to the Lantern Festival. We find a spot and lay out our blankets, then read the instructions to get our lanterns ready. The creative processes of my nieces and nephew…
the world from two wheels
I’m no different, the day to day life wears me down. Things I once enjoyed get forgotten, replaced by tasks that seemed more important at the time. Life is cyclic though, and in its revolution, I am reminded to once again do what I love. The open road was calling my name, the fresh spring…
passing down a National Past time….
“this is my first time being to a baseball game you know….” “Really? We need to change that.” There is nothing I find more relaxing than watching baseball. Throw in a warm Spring night with family and friends, a complimentary suite with free food and drinks, and you’ll need to drag me home when the…
Magnetic Zeros
Spring has sprung here in the SLC, and with the warming sun comes the Red Butte concert series for the summer. To start off my season of fantastic line-up’s comes Black Hole Oscillators, the opening band of the evening. Laying down trippy riffs and long jam sessions, these guys were perfect to listen to as…
Mark Twain tonight…
On the stage was a large oriental rug, upon it only a preacher’s pulpit at one end, a simple reading chair and table at the other. On the table was a pile of books, a shot of whiskey, and a small pitcher of water and drinking glass. This was all that was needed as the…
Time.
Easter weekend at the cabin. Sign me up. Spend great lengths of time with family, always a good thing in my book. It’s funny how time just slips away. So he tries to remember the small moments, turning them into more lasting memories. A call for security late at night, acts of kindness everywhere….
in The Swell
I first heard “licensed to ill” when I was around 14, listening to it on my friend’s walkman in the back of a van heading to the mountains to ski. The memorable times of youth. When I heard on the radio that one of the co-founders of the Beastie Boys, Adam Youch (aka “MCA”), passed…
Little Sahara
The day comes when the fulcrum of life starts tipping, slowly, toward days gone by being more than days ahead. The awareness of the limits of time, as well as the nagging suspicion that the Mayans were right, has me moving like a shark. Get busy moving or get busy dying. With Spring temperatures soaring…
one last time before Spring…
It was way before dawn when I awoke, and so lazily, slowly, I make my way downstairs to the kitchen. As I sip my coffee, I see that a spring storm has left new fallen snow everywhere. I suddenly have what alcoholics refer to as “a moment of clarity”, and realize why I am up…