We Seek After These Things
As I’ve mentioned on the blog, we just moved back to Minnesota after a five year stint in Utah (nutshell: we’re both from Utah, DH went to MN on his mission, came home and married me, we went back to MN in 98 for grad school and stayed for work, said work moved us to [...]
Travels in the Islamic World
Today’s UP CLOSE trips and travels post comes from Melanie, who lives and works in the Washington, DC area. She loves planning trips almost as much as she loves taking them, and sometimes she has trouble remembering where she’s actually been and where she’s just dreamed of going. Most recently her travels took her to [...]
My Cake Doctrine
It seemed crazy, riding a camel up a moutain at midnight. Helpless, six feet in the air, I tried to tell myself that the camel didn’t want to die any more than I did. I listened to the sound of the pebbles as they spilled down the drop-off cliffs, and echoed as they bounced down the rocks [...]








