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 27, 2014 | Pondering Life Outside
When we drove away from Yellowstone earlier this month, we went only as far as we could get in an hour and stopped for a couple of days at a resort famous for its thermally fed, all-season, outdoor pool. We expected to relax with our bodies submerged in 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 28, 2014 | Pondering Life Outside
Of Earth’s four seasons, Iowa wears them all. Each has its own look, its own color, its own mood; and each its own job. Winter drives the birds south and the people indoors and the renewal of spring invites them back. Summer’s heat grows the corn and the...
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...