Shortly after marrying my wonderful wife, I told her that I would rather starve than “have a belly”. In my relatively young adult mind, I believed that I could always keep doing the things I was doing and not gain weight. How naive I was! We weren’t married long before…

I love baked salmon. I fell in love with it eating lovingly-prepared meals at my paternal grandmother’s table. Unfortunately, she took her secret recipe to the grave with her. One thing I do know: no part of the recipe was hurried. …

I cried today. Two of my dear friends have a child who just turned 24. Her life has been one filled with an incomprehensible number of battles with health challenges. My friends have been surrounded by people who love and support them. Even so, there is perhaps no one who…

Early one foggy morning in 2008, I woke up and decided it was time for a change. In 2000, I started a job with a company determined to grow but not so determined to hire the people necessary to make it happen. Grow, they did, because so many employees were…

Standing at 13,528 feet, King’s Peak is the tallest mountain in Utah. It’s a baby compared to so many others, but makes for a formidable opponent if you try to hike it in a single day. It was cliché a long time ago equating hard things with climbing mountains. There…

A row of large purple and white lilac grows outside my kitchen window. My favorite time of year is when those bushes are in full bloom. …

I ran 33 miles this week. There was a time, only a few short years ago, that 50 to 60 miles a week was normal for me. Day after day, I could step out my front door and crank out 10 miles before work. That changed when I went for…

Imagine the future. Your future. Take a moment to imagine your future self in these specific ways. Give yourself permission to spend five or six minutes on this exercise; be detailed. How are you different? How are you the same? Do you still live in the same place? Do you…