Posts by Calvert F Cazier, PhD, MPH

I am reminded of a story I heard a few years ago about a coyote who lived in the forest where he had lived his entire life. This particular day he was doing something that he had been doing since he was a young pup. He was out looking for something to eat. In other…

The other day I was going through some boxes of old papers and pictures as part of a family history project I’m working on. I found several treasures that I want to share with my sons and grandchildren.​Below is a short story I found written by my oldest son, Paul, entitled “My Life”. I found…

As teenagers, my sisters and I had friends over to our house most Sunday evenings. After a while we didn’t have to invite them because they knew there was an open-door policy which became a weekly event. Our parents approved, encouraged, furnished the food, and participated with us. Our friends enjoyed having our parents there.These…

Several years ago, I walked into our house after having a busy day at the office. I was hoping that dinner would be ready, and we could sit down to a nice hot meal. When I walked in the front door, I could smell the hamburger my first wife Carol was cooking for the spaghetti…

In 1974, I graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Master of Public Health degree and my family moved to Price, Utah to work in my first professional job. We lived in this community for five years. It didn’t take long for me to realize that Price was a great place for me to…

I loved visiting Grandma Call and listening to her stories. I will share a few things I learned over the years while sitting at her feet. As I listened to her stories, she painted many pictures in my mind about her father flooding the pasture every winter to make an ice-skating pond for her family…

My first wife Carol had a good sense of humor, and for the most part she was able to control it when it came to practical jokes on me EXCEPT whenever she was with one particular friend, Lynne and then it seemed that I was always the target. One thing about Carol was that she wouldn’t participate…