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To Be A Fan – Ode to Ben Folds

(I have something incredibly cool to announce, that I can barely keep a secret anymore, but must wait a little bit longer…so please watch for a SPECIAL email coming your way in the next few days.)  On to the Article! ~ My inbox just pinged me with a notification that one of my favorite artists in the world is coming to my hometown of Park City, UT. I already knew this, but hadn’t purchased tickets because I had a HOLD on the date for a client. It’s rare for me to be happy that a client changed their date, but that’s what happened, and now I just paid a fairly large sum for my wife and children to go see, LIVE and IN CONCERT, an artist I have adored for almost 30 years. Mr. Ben Folds!!! If you don’t know his work, it’s as if Billy Joel and Elton John decided to have a child with Weird Al (in terms of comedy lyrics), and Mr. Rogers (in poignancy and wisdom).  Alt-Rock, Indie-Pop, Percussive Piano…hard to explain, but the dude’s a genius, as we see in this video of him composing a piece with an entire orchestra here:     Yes,

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July 28, 2023 7 Comments
Announcements

I Can Dance Again

  The other night the song, “Whoomp! (There It Is)” blared over the sound system, as the artist who originally sang the song, Cecil DC The Brain Supreme, crooned the house down to get the party started (side note: I met him backstage and he’s incredibly kind, follow him on Instagram). My wife, perhaps for fear of being seen with me, decided against dancing by my side, and instead turned on the camera.     Why do I share with you this awful dancing in my lusciously ill-fitting Tux & non-formal Vans? Because, it was graduation night for me – the One Year Celebration since my patellar tendon ripped from the shin bone, kneecap flying up my thigh, surgery that would keep me from bending the leg for over 2 months, nearly a year of PT – Whoomp! There It Is. If you missed that I got injured then you must be new to the Promise community and my blog…here are a few articles to choose from to see what happened!   My Broken Knee The Promise of Perspective 10,000 Educators Putting The Promise To The Test   My knee and leg are much better than they have been, I

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July 21, 2023 14 Comments
Family

Sandbags to the Rescue

  “If we don’t fill and place over 1,000 sandbags in the next week we could lose The Ranch.”  For over 100 years, our extended family has enjoyed the beautiful Pine Valley along the mighty Provo River east of Park City, Utah, considered by many to be the most pristine mountain valley in the entire State. Lush, green meadows, surrounded by massive pine and aspen trees of a protected forest service, many a hunter, fisherman, and surveyor have stumbled upon our oasis and wondered how could someone be so blessed to have a cabin or home in such a place? Our Great-Grandfather, Lester Hewlett, purchased 500 acres during the Great Depression just as hard times fell upon the country, and saved it from becoming public land or a reservoir in the high Uintah mountains. Leaving the legacy of this land to his children and grandchildren, AKA, The MSH Family (named after his amazing wife and our Great Grandmother, Margaret Stewart Hewlett), we have done our best to care for, and preserve, this rich heritage of property, spirit, and love among cousins. In the shadows of the biggest winter in Utah history, the runoff in spring would have the potential to

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July 7, 2023 14 Comments
Business

The Unavailable Barbell

Whether you can tell by looking at me or not, I workout every single day (except Sundays). If you accidentally touch my arm then you’ll know it’s true. Otherwise, just seeing me on stage, you’d never know that I live for the gym and to exercise. I LOVE IT. There’s a very simple move I’ve enjoyed for years, it’s for building your biceps/arms, called the Standing Preacher Curl. It’s where you stand behind a tall cushion, rest your chest against it, and drape your arms over the front of it with a barbell in your hands. From there, you curl upwards, keeping your triceps against the cushion, and get an incredible pump in your biceps as you bring the barbell to your chin. I have worked up to doing 4 Sets of 12-16 Reps with 50, 55, and 60 lb barbells. That’s a good amount of weight for anyone who is “natty”, meaning, Natural, and not poking their butts with the juice needle. Since summer began, something weird is happening at the gym – EVERYONE and their Mom seems to be there. Every hour, every moment, 5 AM, 2 PM, 5 PM, 11 PM.  It’s insane! But not everyone uses

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July 7, 2023 4 Comments
Family

The Helmet

The other day I passed a family of bike riders. They all had helmets on, with the Dad in front leading the way, Mom in the middle of the pack helping the youngest children, and what looked like an 11-year old as caboose. He had his helmet on, but the strap hung to the side. In other words, if he fell, the helmet would be fairly pointless. I thought the following: “I wonder why those parents didn’t check to make sure their son’s helmet was strapped on properly.”  Since my leg is nearly healed from an injury a year ago, I have been riding my bike every single day. It is the most freeing, wonderful feeling I can experience as an athlete, as I am still unable to run up a mountain, so biking will do. I ride every day to the gym, do a tough workout, and ride uphill the whole way home. It’s a killer, and proof that I’m getting better. I grew up in the 80’s and there were no such thing as helmets for casual riders. However, I wear one every single time I sit on that bike as an adult. To me, it is the

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July 1, 2023 18 Comments
Engagement

My Genius Grandma – Julie Hayes Hewlett 1941-2023

It’s hard to write with tears in your eyes… Julie Hewlett was the grandparent I had the longest, and even losing her the week I turned 45, is hard to comprehend she is gone. 46 years ago she married my Grandpa Lester Hewlett, in his mid 50’s, after his children and family had already been grown up and become established, long after his marriage ended, as they were set up on a blind date in her mid 30’s. He was a former mission president in Australia, having run the family business for his career, Hewlett’s Jams and Jellies, for decades; she was a teacher from Highland High School in Salt Lake City, UT, who had thousands of children from classes over years of teaching and loving them.     Never having children of her own, Les’ family became hers, and I was born as one of her oldest grandchildren less than a year later. She had an instant family: children just a few years younger than her, many grandchildren, and eventually more great-grandchildren than can be counted… and treated us from go as her own. My Grandfather died in his sleep 6 years later, to everyone’s shock, and especially his

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July 1, 2023 8 Comments

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