In This Season

I should be excited. I should be grateful. I should be happy. I bought a house in 2016 when starter homes were still under $200K. I successfully changed careers in my late twenties without ever taking on any student loans. I'm now a manager at a successful retail company in my hometown with a good salary. My immediate family is ten minutes down the road. I go to a solid church where the gospel is taught regularly. I live in a conservative state and rarely feel unsafe. We're h

I've been distracted lately. Doom scrolling. Checking email every hour. Streaming five episodes of the Gilmore Girls before bed or work. And apps. I try to justify why I'm so distracted, and some of it could be considered "productive", but like everyone else these days the distractions claim more and more of my precious time. In retrospect, the scrolling, streaming, or just dawdling in between tasks is shameful. Embarrassing, even. I remember one particular evening where I ca

I had a dream last night that I was pregnant. Not only that, but at one point I was holding my belly and felt movement that was not my own. I felt my own child - children because in my dream I was pregnant with twins I think - moving around. It wasn't scary. I felt excited and wanted others to experience the same joy by feeling my belly. Such a strange, but happy dream. I know of people that just don't dream. They go years between dreams and when they do dream, they're not pa

The older I get the more I realize we all have a unique journey through life. My triumphs and tribulations bear no resemblance to those of my neighbor, coworkers or closest friends. Even the mundane aspects of our daily lives differ wildly. There are too many variables - too many ways in which God has designed our lives to unfold - and how we approach them. And yet, I think there are lessons we can glean from each other, lessons that are universal in principle, if not in appl

I didn't enjoy playing musical chairs as a kid. I'm sure I put on a good show, but deep down it was stressful, and I didn't have fun. In...

The time is 12:46 pm as I write this - almost exactly one week after Charlie Kirk was tragically shot at the Utah Valley University. It...