Surviving the Loss of Your Child

Surviving the Loss of Your Child

In March of 2008, after touching down from a long flight, this mom and dad received a sobering phone call from their daughter. She informed them that her brother, their son and youngest child was in the hospital. In the days following, they learned the seriousness of...
Helping Hands Change Lives

Helping Hands Change Lives

            “I’m not Mormon, not Catholic and as far as I know my wife and I are not crazy.” That’s how my  guest on the latest Family Stories podcast answered my first question. Somehow, in the midst of raising a wonderful family of eleven children (no that’s not a...
The Fall Should Have Killed Him

The Fall Should Have Killed Him

            In June of 2016 a 65-year-old man crashed into rocks and boulders as he tumbled 600 feet down the avalanche chute of a steep mountain. It should have killed him. His climbing partner thought it did.          Climbing “fourteeners” (mountains above 14,000...