Those bright nights of my childhood when the rest of the world was a darkened blur, spent in spotlights on softball diamonds where the...

My parents told me this story only once, about my great grandfather who was born in 1901 in Castle Dale, Utah. When he was a teenager,...

Smooth ceramic coated with stripes of shades of blue, Brushstrokes blur the color beneath the glaze. Sky blue, indigo, sky blue, indigo...

I watch my brother twin with her, the two of them sitting across the living room with me. He leans down against her shoulder, his arms...

6:00am at Foxhill Road, North Salt Lake The blinds on my window were a joke. Even at eight years old I knew this. They weren’t wide...

I named the trees “the witch trees” because they seemed to have come right out of a fairy tale book, and it felt like a crinkled old...

When I was younger, I used to think there were only two types of cars: on top cars and on bottom cars. Now before you start assuming...

Riley had the biggest head out of everyone in sixth grade. My first thought of him was he had an grown-up’s head on a child’s body. It...

Five in the morning we set out on the road. My twin and I surrounded by the pre-dawn blackness, icy roads beneath us and yesterday’s...

First you’re in the dugout, then you’re in the hole, next you’re on-deck, the bat in your hand as you stand in a chalk circle just off...

I was ten years old playing for the Funky Monkeys and standing on third base of Ziegler's Park softball diamond when my dad leaned down...

In the dim light of the old living room, seven men (and I, the only woman) huddle around a coffee table, each in a mismatching chair: Two...

1. My first memory about wasps—or any stinging bug in general—was when I was following by brothers through the woods and he stepped on a...

Dear Duane, I’m sorry I disappeared. I didn’t mean to, my mom banned me from ever seeing you again. She said you stole something, and...

The first blanket I loved was polka-dotted with Scooby-Doo heads. It was only his head above the turquoise collar, and he had a bouquet...

The best place in our house was in the basement. The family room downstairs was the only place in the house not claimed by my parents, so...

“Do you two want to be in different classes?” I froze, as did my twin brother beside me. It had never occurred to me that it was an...

I wasn’t supposed to be doing this. Any five-year-old knows when mom tucks you in, it means you’re supposed to go to sleep. But Auston...

“Do you remember pizza and french-fries?” Kolton, my boyfriend, asks me. He’d said ‘I love you’ for the first time just a week ago, and...