I read The Courage to Heal in two days, despite the horrific, painful and bitterly sad content. My brain felt the urge to vomit and spew...

The buildings in downtown Cheyenne all have their own names, and long-time residents expect everyone to know those names. Clara’s...

The list of therapists hung on my refrigerator for days. Every time I opened the fridge, there it was. The scrawled names seemed to glare...

The countdown to my visit with the psychiatrist ticked to zero. To say I didn’t want to go meet the man would be an understatement. When...

The next morning, I peeled a few potatoes to make hash browns for my children’s breakfast. Inside the largest potato lurked a curving...

I eased my aching body into the steaming water, then lay back in the tub with a sigh. All day I’d promised myself that if I were able to...

Why are the exam tables in doctor’s offices located under air conditioning ducts? I shivered. The thin hospital gown was open in the back...

Jack made a grab for the telephone receiver as I hung up the phone, and got a handful of my hair instead. “Ouch!” I pried the strands...

“You’re going to be so warm in these!” With Jack’s gleeful assistance, I tugged pair after pair of footed pajamas out of the UPS box. The...

Powerful gusts of wind buffeted our flimsy single-wide trailer. Sheets of rain assaulted the windows with a sound like distant...

A Martin Handcart company survivor testified that his suffering, the price that he paid to become acquainted with God, was a privilege to...

My daughter took me on a fishing trip about a week and a half ago, to Kemmerer, WY, at Fossil Lake Safari, where we dug for fish on the...

​Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley loved snowflakes, and devoted more than forty years to observing and photographing them. The tiny frozen...

Stealing always hurts SOMEONE. It always causes pain, it always creates a victim. Even if it hurts no one else, it harms the person who stea

Winston Churchill was a self-proclaimed optimist who battled recurring bouts of depression all his life. He called depression a “black...

Strolling along a fence line in Rolling Hills, Wyoming, I found myself on the same side of the fence as a group of proghorn. (We never...

If you want to cross the English Channel, and have your name officially ratified and posted in the short list of successful...