I am from heat, dry and wavy. From cactus, rocks and transplanted palms. I am from feet burning hot on the concrete. I am from gliders on...

When I was 19 I went on a summer study abroad to Vienna Austria.  I'd been living away from home for a year and a half already, but ...

One chipper Saturday morning in college, our apartment of three girls headed over to our friends' (three boys) apartment for a waffle br...

My first semester at college overlapped with my sister's last semester.  I lived in apartment dormitories and she lived off campus but ...

Jeremy and I married with a joint dream of having a really awesome library.   We each had a selection of cool books that we brought to the m...

Last January I was really struggling to figure out how to do right by Owen.   There were also less life-changing concerns as well like what...

Me (and my 84 closest relatives) were on the beach last week for a family reunion. We aren't from California. But it's only a 7 ho...

A few summers ago my grandma Virginia was clearing out her large house in preparation to move into small apartment. Many of her belongings...

In searching for a potential spouse we all look for someone with the "right" combination of characteristics. I don't just mean...

I was recently on the blog of a friend's sister-in-law who also happens to be someone Jeremy worked with at the Canon Center at BYU (don...

When Jeremy and I were engaged we went on the obligatory trip to Target to use the super scanner guns and create a wedding registry. It...

Once upon a time there was a boy and we were friends (who had dated in the past but were not currently doing so). And I loved that boy, and...

Way back before portable DVD players and "hand-held gaming systems" were invented, I was young and we lived up in the White Mounta...

Second week of fall semester 2001--I walk in on my roommate. She has her dirty laundry spread out on her bed separating it into five or six...

Dinner in a pumpkin is a longstanding fall tradition from my own childhood. We loved it as kids, what's not to love about baking a pum...

We recently took Owen in for a speech evaluation. As part of the developmental information they asked me to fill out (things like 'when...

Our selection for book club was a very non-traditional read. The whole book is made up of letters from one character to another. Therefore...

I've never really been "big" on labels. Labels were a huge deal in high school of course where I dated two different boys. ...

Today is my next installment of the " You want pies with that? " challenge. I never mentioned, but my first attempt last month t...

I have a spoon collection. Strange, but kind of interesting. When I was 7 my family moved to Germany for three years. My parents figured ...