
Now it’s time to leap: Greta says goodbye (1982-2020)
“You can type. You can get a job with the phone company!” My dad, troubled that his almost-40-year-old daughter was making minimum wage at a
“You can type. You can get a job with the phone company!” My dad, troubled that his almost-40-year-old daughter was making minimum wage at a
In mid-October we launched our campaign inviting you, the reader, to help us financially to bring this final issue to print. We also invited readers
Greta and I have certainly been soul sisters since before time began, but in terms of this particular lifetime, we actually did manage to find
I came to realize that one factor in particular—the search for something beyond normal experience—characterizes life in the Great Basin. Many people don’t just find
Great Salt Lake experienced her final glimmering sunset today, succumbing to a long struggle with chronic diversions exacerbated by climate change. She was born 13,000
The last time I took a giant leap like this, I was 23 years old and had just started working for CATALYST. This was seven
In 1992 when my years working in the adventure travel world came to a close, my Aunt Greta hired me to help CATALYST with ad
The story of how I became a writer starts with Greta deJong and the first time I walked through the door of a big pink
I think I can write,” I said. I had been working at CATALYST for some time as the office manager. “Ok,” Greta replied, and gave
I’ve been writing columns for 40 years with the Salt Lake Tribune, The Event, the Logan Herald Journal, NEO, Utah Magazine, Network, a bunch of
Thirty years ago, Home! a Bioregional Reader published a widely distributed quiz that challenged people to test their knowledge about the place where they live.
Like most Utah sportsmen growing up in the 1960s, I learned to be a classic Utah consumptive user of renewable resources. I became an avid
The summer of 2020 was a scorcher in the Salt Lake Valley. We melted a number of previous records, with the hottest August in 143
Linda Myers, a Utah native and Park City resident, has provided traditional Navajo elders in southern Utah and northern Arizona life-saving supplies for three decades.
1 Average temps today: high 92º, low 67º. Sunrise: 6:24am. Sunset: 8:42pm. On this date in 1944, Anne Frank wrote her last diary entry. 2
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