Spoiler alert: this blog post mentions infertility, depression, and suicidal ideation. I've tried to address these topics with sensitivi...

This is a Very Long Story, one I haven't blogged about because I genuinely thought it would make a better book. I still plan to write th...

Dear Birth Mom, You don't know me. We met exactly once, on the day that I was born, but by then, you'd been in labor for, like, fort...

Three and a half years ago, in the fall of 2016, I got the impression it was time for Chris and me to try to have another baby. This was kin...

She's feistier than she looks I'd like you to meet Gummy Bear, the latest addition to our biological series, which just official...

Alternate title: "Has It Really Been Three Months Since I Blogged?" The first thing you need to know is that I've scheduled ...

Several months ago, I asked myself how I could make my Sabbath-day worship more meaningful, and one of the thoughts I had was that I could m...

About six months ago, the husband got a call at work. His employer was pleased with the lessons he'd been writing on the side for their ...

My maternal grandparents, Jose Junius Ramos and Elsie Marie Sorenson, are two of my heroes. They met in 1950 at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake ...

It probably won't surprise you that I was a high-strung student. School was something I was very good at, and I took it VERY seriously. ...

I grew up in a mixed-race home, though I've never thought about it that way until just now. My dad puts the Anglo back in Anglo-Saxon, a...

I have crazy eyes. I don't know the name of my condition, but suffice it to say that I got glasses when I was three and contacts when I ...

You've probably heard about the latest attempt to ban John Green's books , but if you haven't, here's a quick recap: A teach...

When I blogged last summer about the last day I had with Honey Bear before he left on his mission, several readers mentioned that they want...

Now that I have a little time for blogging (read: now that I finished my latest revision), I've been thinking about what I might say, an...

We drive the stretch of I-15 between Mesquite and Kaysville several times a year, so I'm pretty sure I have the whole thing memorized. I...

Come back tomorrow afternoon for an INTERACTIVE interview with Clelia Gore of Martin Literary Management . She'll be taking questions f...

Bonnie is about a lot of things--swimming, survivor's guilt, first love, forgiveness--but in my heart of hearts, she's always been a...

I've started this post a dozen times and never finished it. I've rewritten, rearranged, added, and deleted. In fact, I've seriou...

We survived our road trip! It was a ton of driving, but it was also a ton of fun. Here are the highlights: Day One: Utah and Colorado We...