Skylar Over The Hill I turned 40 on Saturday, which means I'm now officially pickled. I remember when my dad turned 40. I was seven at the time. His friends gave him
Work Change I started law school in 2008, which may have been the worst possible year to start law school. The economic recession had hit the legal market hard, and when it
Skylar Are you disappointed? "Oh darn." Skylar was scrolling through his phone when he said it. "No reservations?" I asked him. "None. Well, none before 7:30, anyway."
Life The Year Of I explain this every year but some of you are forgetful and some of you are new and I love the sound of my own voice, so I'm
Social Distancing 2020 It was June. I went for a run around my city. This was a Saturday and it had been a very hard week in the exact middle of a very
Skylar The Urge To Be Happy I'm sitting at my kitchen table. The fire is going. Duncan is perched in front of the front door staring out at a snow storm. Skylar is in
Skylar Anniversary Tomorrow is my and Skylar's one-year wedding anniversary what how is that possible you look so young STOP IT YOU GUYS. What a wild first year of marriage
Teaching Teacher's Pet I'm a few weeks into this new semester with my First Amendment class at the law school down the street and reader, let me tell you: teaching a
Skylar This New Step of Covid When The Great Covid began earlier this year I was one of those people who was constantly telling you that actually we really had a lot to learn from this
Law When did we get old? I started teaching a class at the law school down the street from my house last fall. It's a First Amendment class. We read a bunch of cases
Ridiculous Excuse MY Christmas! Since 2011, I've been receiving emails from all of you on all sorts of topics and for all sorts of reasons. Some of the emails contain photos of
Ollie The Thing About 2020 I have two friends who tested positive for the Rona recently. I won't say their names here because of HIPPO or whatever. I don't know. I
Strangerville Around the Campfire, With You Obviously it's been a rough week in the U.S. I've spent the last couple of days writing something about all of it (and stewing over
Work A Time a Lawyer Taught Me Something Over the weekend I shared a story on Twitter about an experience I had early in my career with an opposing attorney. Here's the Tweet thread. > People
Social Distancing Obvious, Even I just came across a picture in my phone from 2015. It's the first picture I ever took with Skylar. We had met in person for the first
Duncan This Supposed End of the World On Friday night Skylar started having a meltdown. To give you some perspective, his meltdowns don't look like mine. Mine are like the Chernobyl disaster. His are more
BYU The BYU Honor Code Hi, Strangers. We're self-quarantining at my house since the whole world is exploding. Bob and Cathie called me yesterday to tell me church was canceled. They sounded so alive. Then they read multiple memes about the Coronavirus they had found on Facebook
Church Forever? A few years ago I started having ongoing debates with a friend about whether the existence of an afterlife is scarier or less scary than there being no afterlife. She
Skylar Children One thing they don't tell you when you choose to be gay is that family planning is going to be complicated. No one told me that. When they
Palau The Only Footprints I Shall Leave I walked out onto the beach. It was sunny, already pretty warm even though it was only 9:30 AM. There aren't waves in the water in Palau.
Skylar The Year Of We flew into Salt Lake City a few hours ago and I'm trying desperately not to fall asleep until at least 9:00 PM. I don't
Palau He'll Love Palau A high energy version of "Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland" is blasting through a not-so-bad sound system embedded in the airport ceiling. It's New Year&
Life 2019 Every year when I write my year-end post I try to think about what made the last twelve months "good." There certainly have been years in which that
Daniel Return to Palau I returned to the United States of God Bless America from Palau just over six years ago WHAT HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE. I've been thinking about Palau a
Skylar Vows. Alternative Title: Ugly-Crying in Front of a Lot of People By Skylar I put off writing these vows, because I felt so much pressure. I mean, this is a gay wedding: the masses expect at least one uncomfortable musical number.
