Category: Blog Post

Names are funny. We can use them to live in an identity that was given to us, create an identity we want to live in instead, or to remind us of who we truly are.

It was September 2018 when Jon and I came to a big decision… Things had gotten pretty bad between us, and we were both done. It was a calm decision, not one that came from arguing, but from a feeling of complete defeat.  When we married—although we were both Christians—we…

And I thought of Zach…

I thought of how much it meant to me that I got to experience being at General Conference for the first time with my brother and my parents all those years ago.

“Uggghhhh,” I groaned, irritated at the obnoxious ringtone I had yet to change. I grudgingly picked up my cell phone and peeked at the screen to see who it was. “Nope,” I muttered, pushing aside a sliver of guilt for rejecting her call. I loved Mom, we talked all the…

“Well, it’s what we thought. Your blood results confirmed you have Chronic Myeloid Leukemia…” The chubby hematologist with the world’s worst bedside manner continued rambling on with facts and figures, but I couldn’t hear anything more after ‘leukemia’. I stared at my beautiful four month old daughter, Alaura. Her adorable,…