What happens when you take 30 middle school students to Zion National Park? Complete chaos, right? Actually, with the group I took last Friday, not at all. They were well-behaved and respectful – both to me, the other chaperone […]
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Everyone needs a National Park Bucket List!
I am a national park aficionado. I’ve spent a lot of time in national parks over the years, but still there is so much more that I want to do in the places that are “America’s Best Idea” as the title of […]
It’s Zion. Not Zions (or Zion’s)
While staying at a good friend’s house who lives in Wasatch Front a few years ago, his wife told me that their family should come down to southern Utah to visit “Zions” sometime – the national park that is only 23 […]
The Alliteration of Zion: Poetry Inspired by Nature
A week ago I went to “school” in one of my favorite places on earth, Zion National Park. I attended a poetry workshop put on by the Utah State Poetry Society and Zion Canyon Field Institute, (for whom I’m doing a […]