by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 18, 2012 | for Home
When I was a 12, I met a family from Sugar City, Idaho, who had survived the Teton damn break and resultant flooding. They came to Utah for a number of months to live with their cousins, who lived on my street. Hearing the things that caused the most stress and...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 17, 2012 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The rock wall is no more! Just before the driveway was poured, we discussed possibly sharing a fence with our soon-to-be neighbor. Since they were just contemplating digging their foundation, he didn’t know how he wanted to manage it. But we were left with the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 14, 2012 | for Home
One of the great features the city of Lindon, Utah, provides for homeowners is irrigation water. We had culinary water for cooking, drinking, and bathing, as usual, but we also have irrigation water that is used for yards and gardens. Because it requires less...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 13, 2012 | for Home
Spring is here. Truly we didn’t have much winter to begin with—certainly an oddity in Utah—but after a winter with 300 percent of the typical snowfall, a dry winter was welcome to most of us. The city turned the water on this week and we’re ready to begin...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 12, 2012 | for Love
I wish someone had clued me in 25 years ago! All this time I should have been sipping cocoa and watching reality TV! Hilary Rosen, who has visited the Obama White House some 35 times (General Petraeus has visited nine times) and is a top democratic strategist,...
