I don’t want to end the day on a down note, and while I was writing Wanted Hero my wife called. Just hearing her voice still puts butterflies in my stomach and a smile on my face. I hung up with a sigh and started thinking how absolutely lucky I happen to be. Well, blessed–I don’t believe in luck. It got me feeling...
read moreI learned that people go literally crazy when someone they know dies. I have always avoided funerals. My close friend died when we were teenagers–he flipped his dad’s boat and truck near our favorite lake, rolling the truck and throwing him from the cab. I refused to go to his funeral. My parents didn’t make me go,...
read moreOn April 25th, 2004, I received a phone call from my father at 4:14 am (time is a bit fuzzy), waking me from sleep. It was a choking, sobbing voice, and I clicked on the light to look at the caller ID on the nightstand. The first words I heard were: “Mom’s dead.” I remember my heart breaking and becoming angry at...
read moreJust got the call from Kathi as she left the Hospital from her check up with the new Doctor. We had to find a new Doctor with moving so far away after losing the house. Not long ago (about 6 weeks) Kathi had emergency surgery and was rushed to the new Riverton Hospital (IHC) here in the Utah Valley and I have to say it was the most...
read moreA strange title for a post, but a good one after what I witnessed today. Kathilynn had the same experience, but gratefully, we saw seperate sides of the same situation. We are camping at the moment. It’s our family reunion. The same place, every year, at the same time…and we all love this week more than Christmas. Well,...
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