Kemper's Korner

  I’m so thankful for a family that is at home waiting for me with open arms each day when I arrive home from work, the good days and the bad. They always love me the same. I wouldn’t have been able to find my wonderful wife and build my own family if I hadn't had such a great example from my own  parents, grandparents  and aunts and uncles.         I’m grateful for the conditions that allowed my parents to worship as they pleased.  My mother pursued, renewed, and nurtured her faith in God despite doubts my father had for many years.  A reminder that to this day in some nations in the world women are not allowed to pursue interests of their own let alone those interests that involve religious views and practices.  My parents pursued happiness as they saw fit raising our family in love.  Thankfully their parents, grandparents, etc. All pursued their happiness in the land of the free since the day the Europeans began to settle....

I recently visited a campsite on Strawberry Reservoir in Utah with my family on a weekend getaway. Being a new (earlier this year) RV owner I initially was excited to see other RVs in the vicinity, but upon going for my morning run the next day I realized that RVs and the trucks pulling them comprised the vast majority of campers in all of the nearby campsites. But there was more. Many of the sites had RVs, golf carts, sport side-by-sides, and the like parked there with a little sign that said something like, “Reserved through 15 September” (I saw these in July). It became clear to me that many people adopted the practice of securing long-term reservations and visiting their campsite when they had time over the summer in a similar fashion to how they would escape to a second home or a time-share condominium. Purchasing an RV and parking it at a campsite under a long term reservation is probably more economical than purchasing waterfront summer homes. Justin Farrell in his recent boo...