Struggle Bus

Struggling with mental illness is one of the worst things this life has to offer. It feels like my brain is constantly trying to attack me and completely rob me of hope. Through a lot of work, I’ve been able to get a lot better at suppressing them, but they are far from being gone. …

Barrett Height Differential Theorem

We have all seen couples. From that weird couple who’s “in love” in elementary school to your weird coworkers who get frisky on their lunch break, they’re everywhere. How many times have we seen couples wherein the male is shorter than the female? Apart from the couple in elementary school when the boy is still …

Mormons AND LGBTQ, Not Mormons vs. LGBTQ

A glaring issue I’ve noticed when it comes to the LGBTQ community and the LDS church is that it becomes an argument of “the church versus sexuality” when that is just not the case. While I can absolutely see why people believe that Mormons hate those who don’t fit the heteronormative mold, it’s not a …

Quora

Recently, I’ve been spending down times during work on a social media platform called Quora. People on this post questions, and other people reply. I don’t really relate to most of the questions, so I’ve been doing more reading than posting. A few days ago, I found questions about the LDS church, some real, some …

Mother’s Day

My mom died in a car accident when I was six years old. That’s probably not the best first sentence, but I got your attention, didn’t I? My brother and I were in the car with her, and while my brother escaped with minor injuries, I had a broken orbital floor, massive swelling of the …

Being Mormon at Work

I am one of two LDS people at my work, and the only one under the age of 50. Most of my coworkers have 0 idea about Mormons and our beliefs and it leads to some pretty funny misconceptions. There are some people who like to ask me questions about some of our beliefs, like …

Mental Illness

I’m not gonna lie, I’m so over the stigma mental illnesses have in society. If somebody were to say, “I have a cold,” nobody would get uncomfortable and awkward and show fake pity. Yet if I were to say, “yeah I have bipolar disorder,” that’s exactly what would happen. While they’re drastically different, and one …

Revelation

Religiously I have led an interesting life. I was born to two LDS parents, I was baptized at 8 like any other “ideal” Mormon kid. But I fell away from the church pretty quickly once I stopped relying on my father’s religion and testimony. That started around the beginning of 7th grade. My dad is …

Demon Cows

One thing that I loved about living in Logan, Utah was how much outdoor stuff there is to do. Just drive less than 20 minutes up the canyon right outside town and you’re in the perfect place to rock climb, hike, or raft. An activity that I discovered in Utah was hammocking. I fell in …

Disaster Bus

Okay, to set the scene. Picture a young Adam, about 16 years old. This young Adam had been on a superactivity with his church group. Unfortunately this trip overlapped with his family reunion, so his father had the genius idea to buy a Greyhound bus ticket for him so he could meet up with his …