The U Project

Take a second and think about where your eyes spend most of the day. Your phone. Your computer. Your steering wheel. The sink full of dishes. Your to-do list. The laundry basket. The grocery cart. Most of us spend our days looking down or straight ahead, focused on whatever task comes next. We move from one responsibility to another without ever really noticing the world around us. But here's something interesting: our brains weren't designed to spend every waking moment st

Remember when summer meant riding your bike until the streetlights came on? When the biggest decision of the day was whether to run through the sprinkler or eat another popsicle? Somewhere along the way, summer became... productive. We mow the lawn. We tackle house projects. We coordinate vacations. We catch up on work. We tell ourselves we'll relax after we finish just one more thing. Then September shows up, and somehow we never got around to enjoying summer. Here's the thi

Utah's summer has been... crispy. With wildfire danger at an all-time high, many communities have banned private fireworks this year. While that might throw a wrench into your annual neighborhood light show, it doesn't mean the celebration has to fizzle. In fact, this year gives us the perfect excuse to get a little more creative. As we celebrate 250 years of American independence, maybe this is the year we remember that the Fourth of July has always been about something bigg