Cathy Free
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Cathy Free has written her "Free Lunch" column for the Deseret News since 1999, believing that everyone has a story worth telling. A longtime correspondent for People Magazine, she has also worked as a contributing editor for Reader's Digest.

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Anyone who has risen before dawn on a Saturday morning to organize a yard sale, then spent hours bartering over the price of a pea-green macramé planter, could learn a thing or two from Sarah Bateman. Do...
There’s nothing like standing on the spot where you’ll one day be buried to acquire a new appreciation for life. Hiram Bertoch knows the feeling. Every day he passes by the grassy tract where heR...
Mark Gudenas followed his dream and opened a classic drive-in theater and Airstream motel on the edge of southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante wilderness.
On Mother’s Day, you’d be hard-pressed to find a group of women more deserving of rose-and-carnation bouquets than the mothers Samira Harnish admires.
With the arrival of daffodils and dandelions and blossoms on dogwood trees, Penelope Pinnecoose is drawn once again to memories of the bear dance.
Forty years ago, Randy Austin took a wrong exit and ended up in Torrey, Utah, where he's lived ever since, running a motel and the only grocery store in town.
No parking, no gas, no problem. Downtown mom Mickelle Weber downsized from the suburbs six years ago and has no intention of going back.
Two college pals hit the back roads of Utah on a quest to visit every greasy spoon in the state.
The grandson of the only Utahn to die aboard the Titanic reflects on his grandmother's legacy, 100 years after the world's most famous ocean disaster.
Fridays are the worst day for Dean Collett. At 83 years young, he lives for Mondays, when he can again absorb the energy and enthusiasm of 1,600 teenagers at Highland High School.