by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 20, 2014 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
When my oldest two were four and seven and I was pregnant with the youngest, we went to Yellowstone. It was May. Deep snow lined the roads through the high mountain passes even while the sun made long sleeves unbearable. Because I’m into conversation, every...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 12, 2014 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Occasionally my husband’s job requires him to travel. Once in a while, I tag along. He works while I spend silent hours with books. Our trip to Denver was different. He worked and I discovered HGTV. Forlorn and neglected, my books sat in a tidy stack on the...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 5, 2014 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
In their quest to unearth my son’s Star Wars chess set, my kids discovered a bundle of cards and letters I’d saved–drawings and cards they had given me, cards from my husband, and a letter from my dad. It was twenty-five years old, written during the...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Feb 12, 2014 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
We dragged ourselves into Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel according to plan, just after midnight Sunday morning. We’d driven twenty hours and that last one was hard. We were all road-weary and my husband, who had driven most of the way, was done. I...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 18, 2014 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Linking this weekend with Still Saturday and The Sunday Community.
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 14, 2014 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Twenty Januarys ago, the flat monotony of I-80 delivered us to the foothills of the Wasatch Range of the Utah Rockies and the threshold of the Big Cottonwood Canyon. As Dad eased to a stop at the intersection leading to the canyon road, we saw a disheartening sign...