What’s so great about mindfulness? It seems like almost every day I see an article online or in my news feed that has something to do...

My first thought was how could this happen?  This was a respected religious community.  My second thought was why didn’t the women go to...

We drove through the Duck Valley Indian Reservation on the Idaho-Nevada border this past week, and I thought about the many times my...

We might know our height and weight, even our blood cholesterol levels, but do we know our life stage?  Or do we even care?  In my late...

It’s good to remember in times like these that life will go on after this viral pandemic is through.  It might be a different life, but...

Watching HBO’s miniseries about the nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, I thought of my grandmother Verna.  She died of...

Jack, a tall, slim nurse, probably close to thirty, tapped the veins in my mother’s arm looking for a good one to attach an IV.  Though...

To those of you who ask why raise chickens, I say why not? Especially during the age of coronavirus, companion animals can be an...

“Could it be a meteor?  Maybe a little chunk of meteor rock fell from the sky into my back window,” I suggested. He looked at me...

I’ve always found cemeteries interesting. The first time I went to Europe I lost my passport wandering in a cemetery outside Exincourt, a...

I grew up in a little box of a house in an Indiana suburb.  There were houses on either side of us and one across the street.  As far as...

“Hey!” I holler across to them.  “Don’t you guys know you can only go barefoot on months that don’t have the letter “R” in their name? ...

So, the Baptists, in general, were cautiously supportive of a woman’s right to abortion. As a former Baptist, I find this fascinating. I...

I remember the first time I really looked at the canyon and noticed it’s beauty. I was newly married and had just moved to a desert farm...

How does anyone like dogs?  They eat their own poo (well, some do) and like to roll around in dead fish or worse, my flower beds.  They...

Nervous flyers might be hesitant to fly after hearing about the Max 737 crashes.  I get it.  I’m not a fan of flying either.  I’ve fought...

“Mom, do you know anything about putting chains on tires?” She looked at me horrified—and I shrugged. It was an old habit, asking mom for...

If an Idahoan ran for president, would it be apparent he’s from Idaho? How would an Idahoan be viewed in the political spotlight? George...

But I’ve had other songs stuck in my head before. For a few years, at odd moments, like when I was boiling eggs or sorting through my...

In my dream what made me feel most guilty was not that I’d stolen a can of beer, but the lie I told after that. I tried to explain away...