Utah is not like any other state. Some Americans are still not sure Utah is a part of the union, and in its early history, of course, the U.S. Government refused to allow statehood for the land of Deseret. A…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Return to Abajo Peak. An Autumn’s View’‘ Searching for Solitude at the Summit‘ SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles ‘Cheap Lives in a Sacred Economy W I N D O W S A c r o s…
In the blink of an eye, summer has left us. The maples are turning red below South Peak, the aspens are on the cusp. The mornings are cold and crisp. The most poignant and melancholy and lovely time of the…
I made my 28th trip to the top of a nearby mountain last month. But who’s counting? I hadn’t missed a year since 1985, and then my own procrastinations and an early snow storm stymied my efforts to make the…
I am in most ways an un-ambitious writer. Even downright lazy. While I’ve contributed to other magazines and periodicals over the years, and finally threw a book together in 2007, I confine most of my scribbling to The Zephyr. Recently,…
Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground. That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the…
“People will remember today as a day to date things in their lives from, in the same way they did with President Roosevelt. They say, where were you when President Roosevelt died…. they will say the same thing about where…
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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles “Our Friends Were Dearer Then”—Herb Ringer 1913-1998 An Introduction to this Special Issue of The Zephyr also…“Stiles Road Rules #43, Confessions and Complaints of a Lifelong Jaywalker” SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles “The Forgotten Conservative Case…
I find it hard to fathom that almost 15 years have passed since my dear friend Herb Ringer left us, almost as long as the length of time we were friends. I met Herb in the late summer of 1981…