Author: Justin Hill
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A day and a half in Geneva
Last week I had about a day and a half of free time around a business meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. The city offers free bikes (for 4 hours — 2 francs an hour after that) so I borrowed one and rode over the French border to a cable car that took me up Mont Salève,…
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Elementary School Color Run
The kids’ school had a fun little fundraiser last night. I was the cameraman.
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Well-known Mormons in the Salt Lake City Cemetery
If you like cemeteries and you like Mormons, you’ll love the Salt Lake City Cemetery. The oldest known burial here was in 1847, a child named Mary B. Wallace. Two years later, George Wallace was on the committee that recommended the place to Brigham Young. The cemetery covers 120 acres and there are now (September…
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The Road to Character
“People turn into little brand managers, using Facebook, Twitter, text messages, and Instagram to create a falsely upbeat, slightly over exuberant, external self that can be famous first in a small sphere and then, with luck, in a large one.” (The Road to Character by David Brooks, page 251.) This book triggered at least two nights of…
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The Great Sheep Escape
Our friends’ four 4-H sheep broke out of their backyard pen and joined a neighboring flock. I showed up after they had been trying for an hour to extract the four from the rest and I took some footage of the fun. I’m sad I missed the impressive leaps over outstretched arms that happened before I pulled out…