and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.

I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.