Melody Jonas and I are getting ready to take our family to an amateur racing event that Lucky River put on to raise money to help Butterfly Buck with home improvements. He was a key player in bringing the two…

Ginger Our luggage is haphazardly stacked in the living room between the sofa and the tall Christmas tree. We haven’t been home from Montana but a few hours. Every year since we married, we’ve traveled back to see Mary and…

Raven “Are they going to be okay?” I can’t help looking over my shoulder through the back windshield. Our four-year-old daughter Marianna and our seven-year-old son Kaden are waving goodbye enthusiastically. Marshall’s brother Jonas and my friend Melody, who’ll be…

Courtney I know River has something planned for tonight. He’s acted cagey the last couple of weeks as the days leading up to our 10-year wedding anniversary drew closer. I’m no sleuth but it doesn’t take one to know whatever…

Aspen The walls in the living room hold a series of framed photographs that span the twenty years I’ve been married to Wilder. A few people tried to tell me in the beginning when we were newlyweds that the shine…