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Deseret News
deseret.com > sports > 11/29/2025 > when-literature-meets-basketball

Legacy of joy and humor left by Frank Layden lives on

5+ hour, 29+ min ago (409+ words) As I was watching the Utah Jazz's NBA Cup game against the Oklahoma City Thunder last Friday at the Delta Center, I noticed a woman seated in the family section (where the players' families usually sit, near the Jazz's locker room tunnel). My eyesight isn't great and I was on the other side of the arena so I couldn't quite make out exactly who it was. Who was she? And what was she reading?! I had to know. Some quick reconnaissance in the locker room after the game and the truth was revealed. It was Verna, Lauri Markkanen's wife. He got her on FaceTime and she showed me the book she had with her. Oh just a little classic Russian literature. Some light reading of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, that's all. A woman after my own heart. What a legend....

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Deseret News
deseret.com > opinion > 11/22/2025 > i-was-not-expecting-to-identify-with-the-grandmother-in-freakier-friday

I was not expecting to identify with the GRANDMOTHER in ‘Freakier Friday’

1+ week, 10+ hour ago (547+ words) I recently ordered an extra large pill organizer from Amazon. I had outgrown the standard-sized weekly pill organizer and needed larger compartments to fit the gigantic magnesium and fiber capsules I take every morning, in addition to a handful of other supplements I take daily to keep my body functioning at an optimal level. Or at least make me think my body is functioning at an optimal level. The description for the extra large weekly pill organizer reads, "Perfect for seniors or arthritic patients," which was a glimpse at my own mortality I wasn't quite prepared for. I swear last week I was roller-skating with my neighborhood friends, and now, here I am, wondering if everyone my age has knees that hurt most of the time. I laughed out loud at a line about Jamie Lee Curtis not having eaten…...