Special to Great Pacific Review - by Jason James Barry Why do the simplest things never work out so simply? Of course I‘m talking about...

Notifications came from school. Early pick-up. And then, none of us knew what was next. That whole week, I had been stocking up and...

There was a time, not long ago, when someone said something in passing and said it to an actual person — and that essentially was that....

Twice now, and more so, I’ve been made privy to old friends or past co-workers who’ve been under arrest. The most recent was a “now...

I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other...

When I started looking into some of my father’s old police cases, I didn’t expect to get pulled in so fully, the same way I think he did....

The coffee odyssey in Downtown SLC has been troublesome. The Coffee Shop at the Little American was a bust (see full review). And the...