What Didn't Kill Me

My dad, Tim Bjorklund, did not set out to become a volunteer Taps player – but he has been playing Taps for veterans’ funerals for more than...

You know that feeling of white-hot rage when someone next to you is chewing so loudly it's like they were raised in a barn? Or when your...

Going to church all the time wouldn’t have been so bad had it not been for the dreaded...   …church clothes. Up until I was a grown-ass adul...

Sunday School.  I'm sure you're familiar. It's the hour-ish before or after church where, as a child, you get a kid-friendly dos...

 "Ope" has been having a moment. For the unfamiliar (re: non-Midwesterners), "ope" is a polite interjection, akin to ...

I'm the perfect parent. In my head. Ten years ago. Before I had kids. We all are, though, aren't we? That child over there, crying a...

  You know when you're a kid, you have an outfit or two that you wore to death because you love it SO MUCH and you think you look SO AMA...