85 Horses

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

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...
Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Back home > This essay won first place in the 2002 BYU Studies essay contest. View the original article here.   Miles to Go Before I Sleep   ​Cold days were the hardest for her. A skiff of snow on the ground would mean that the air would pack around her...