Amy Choate-Nielsen
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Amy Choate-Nielsen is a special projects reporter for the Deseret News where she covers a variety of in-depth issues, including the environment, public welfare and education. Since joining the paper in 2004, she has covered municipal politics in Utah County as well as the west side of Salt Lake County. As a Utah transplant originally from Connecticut, Amy graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo with a degree in print journalism, a minor in English and a love of the Beehive State. She lives in the suburbs with her husband and two children.

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Generations of mothers must have had a hard time getting their family out of the proverbial door.
Birthdays can be a big deal — in some ways more than ever, and in other ways less.
My family's educational bent was born more than a century ago in the sparsely populated plains of Texas.
My grandmother earned her master's degree in 1966 when she was 55 years old — but she didn't do it alone.
I'm perplexed over what school to send my daughter to. But looking to my grandmother's example, maybe the greater lesson can be taught in any classroom.
As the amount of student debt in America has grown to nearly $1 trillion and the average cost of college tuition has dramatically increased, some experts say that the model of higher education is reaching a cri...
My kids make messes and I clean them up. But at some point, I wonder if their appreciation and adoration will kick in and inspire them to keep their messes at a minimum.
If my grandmother, a registered nurse, was willing to eat only grapes to cure her cancer, what else could I be doing to treat my little aches and pains?
My grandmother and Margaret Thatcher might only have one thing in common, but it dismays me that women who have accomplished so much might still be worried about their figure.
Looking back at my grandmother's interest in dieting, I wonder how I can help my daughter (and myself) to have a happy and healthy body image.