


Doing Hard Things
Back home > I Skied Yesterday Done something really hard lately? Recently, I did. Before 30, every “first” seemed challenging. College. Jobs. Marriage. First mortgage. Fatherhood. Bigger mortgages. 🙂 It isn’t hard to see how these were all...
I Skied Yesterday
Back home > I Skied Yesterday I skied yesterday. Earliest day I can remember free-heeling in the back country. November 9th. We hiked it very early that morning—7:00 a.m.—myself and two of my sons. I eyed the snow depth every half mile or so, and tracked six...
85 Horses
Back home > This essay won Honorable Mention in the 2019 Richard H. Cracroft Personal Essay Contest. Publication coming soon. 85 Horses Dad was 24 and single when he got his first boat—a new, 1956 StarCraft—15 feet long, burgundy and white, with a...
Vernal Equinox
Back home > This essay won first place in the BYU Studies personal essay contest for 2000. View the original publication here. Vernal Equinox ​Here I sit, practicing a solo version of “You Are My Sunshine” on my harmonica—the same instrument that my...