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...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 7, 2014 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
During finals week of my sophomore year I noticed a two columned list, double-sided, on my college roommate’s desk. It was titled My Life From Now Until I Die. She had a lot to do. College is like that. So is life. In my first post here at Along This Road, after...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Dec 31, 2013 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Two years ago my parents took all five grandchildren to Florida to the beach and Sea World and Disney World. Disney World. My mom looked kind of chagrinned when she brought it up, as though she was worried we might think they had taken leave of their senses. She had...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Dec 17, 2013 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Parked on a chair in the hospital lobby, I was beyond the reach of the wind’s icy fingers. I’d come for a routine test and stayed to make my grocery list in an attempt to delay meeting the arctic air that had blown in that morning. A family went about...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Dec 5, 2013 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
When my uncle and aunt left their Century Farm in Iowa to ranch in Oklahoma they offered me much of what had been sitting, unused for generations, in their attic. There were books. Heaps of them. My favorites were the old ones with worn covers, among them a frayed...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Nov 24, 2013 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Because I inherited my zeal for vacation planning from my dad, it wasn’t long after he invited me to go to the writing class that we began to plot the hikes we would take along the way. He charted our route, one that would take us into Yellowstone through the Tetons...