Personal

I can remember it like it was yesterday.  It was August 2000 and I had just bought a cabin in Idaho and I was working on it with my dad before I had to go a City Council meeting for a project in Rexburg.  My wife called and when I answered I could hear the fear in her voice. She …

Motherhood was something I never sought after growing up in the culture that I did. I was adamant that we would not have a baby until at least two years after Ben and I got married, and he agreed. I never grew up around kids or in a big family so it was never an urgent passion of mine, and …

I recently took a fall.  Isn’t it interesting how we construct that statement? I took a fall. Kind of like I took a trip or I took a journey. I took a fall. And in many ways, my last fall was a type of journey. It started with only a split second, the  knowledge that I had stepped on  snow-covered …