I have been an athlete all my life participating in in many sports including triathlon, racquetball, and swimming. I come from an athletic family as well; my brothers play ice hockey, run track and field, and participate in long distance cycling, and my father was a football player and martial…

Motherhood is a roller coaster of moments and emotions in which you summit then plummet and climb up again. One minute you’re crying happy tears because your perfect angel woke up and crawled into bed with you to loop her little arms around your neck, nuzzle her nose against yours…

My little chihuahua passed away in March this year. He had been sick for a while, so it was not a surprise, but it was still hard to lose him. He was ten years old and lived a full life. …

Nothing stresses me out quite like trying to put my messy life in tidy boxes. Moving is the absolute worst. Every time I do it I say, “I am never moving again.” I am not even going to say that this time. I don’t want to jinx it. This new…

If it does not look like love, sound like love, or feel like love, then it is not love. Love does not turn its back, it does not cross its arms to withhold affection, and it does not look upon others with a hardness around the eyes. Love does not…

Dollars and Tears, Terrors and Years — “Addiction runs in our family,” said my mother, “so you need to be careful.” I was young the first time she said this to me and she has said it many times since. Years later, another family member from my father’s side said, “we have addictive personalities. We do not…

You voted for them to represent on your behalf but they believe they know better than you and they are not listening. — July 28, 2020 Anchorage, Alaska My hometown is in the midst of a battle with its elected officials. In the past two weeks I have joined my fellow citizens to provide testimony against the city’s decision to spend twenty-two and a half million dollars of pandemic relief money on the…

A History of Gun Control in America and the Fever of Firearms Affirmations Gripping the Nation — Two teenaged boys opened fire at their high school with semi-automatic weapons on April 20, 1999; they killed thirteen, wounded twenty-one, and then turned the guns on themselves. This is the first I remember hearing of a mass shooting. There were nine in the United States prior to the Columbine…

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — President Trump made remarks on July 16 regarding his plan to roll back regulations that impede progress in the United States. His proposal will affect the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) which was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on January 1, 1970 and has not been updated at…