Garlic Salt

We discussed love while rowing on a freshly painted boat on Phewa Lake in Nepal. He rowed. And I pretended I knew how to. In the far di...

I once loved a boy. People thought we were really cute together. We thought so too. We would both get so pumped about the same things, vo...

In between Shanghai and Provo "Happy birthday!!!" we sang into the phone, shrieking out our last off key note for maximum them...

Yesterday as I was performing my sisterly duties of straightening Jody's hair, I asked her about the dress she was getting tailored for...

He ran his fingers through his hair, shiny with grease, and brandished his practiced smile. Let me be your tour guide. Your bodyguard. Your...

At the start of every new year growing up, we would prop our short legs up on the engraved chest in the living room and scratch out our New ...

There were a lot of pathetic apologies from my end (I wasn't sure what I was supposed to apologize for). There were a lot of swearing an...

We begged. We smiled. We reasoned. We flirted. We did everything to persuade the gatekeepers to put out their cigarettes and sneak us into...

J always jokes and says that I "never let the truth get in the way of a good story." Most of the time, it's because I am tal...

Jody, recently joined Model United Nations (MUN) at school, a club where kids apply their knowledge of current issues in simulated UN settin...

I was going to tell you a story of a battle with my mom where I had fought hard, ultimately won, and constantly regretted. But instead, I...

When I first got here, I couldn't make a joke without a resultant awkward silence reverberating around the office cubicle walls. At firs...

One miserably hot summer day before my freshman year, I stayed home and read while Chelsea and Casey went out to check out the BYU campus. T...

I groped around in the dark, trying to steady myself on the wooden stool that was supposed to be in the corner. I wasn't sure what disar...

The safari was amazing. I don't think I can really describe it. So I'll just resort to photos.   I...

I had only worked at the office for around a month when a guy on the sales team teased me about being a workaholic. I was instantly con...

Growing up, I would watch Chelsea stain our floor with paint as she fleshed out the sketches in her head. I noted where she dabbled playful ...

Packing up and moving away to another country is a pain. I can't believe how much stuff I've hoarded. It almost makes me want to qui...

If somebody asked you to complete this sentence, what would you say? "I'm beautiful because  . . . " Well, as part of thei...

Have I ever bragged about my sister Jody before? She's eleven. Smart. Beautiful. Sassy. And she is an amazing writer. She wrote this p...