Today marks 45 years since my mother passed away after a fight with liver cancer. I had just graduated from high school a few months earlier. I’m thankful for the time I had with her. I am also thankful that, if she had to go, it was through a process that gave us some time […]
Category: Building LWB
Well, I completed my fourth chemotherapy treatment today–only two more to go. Now, on to Lightward Bound news, while I still feel good enough to give time and energy to writing this. Because of my current medical journey, I have decided to limit my LWB work to four main goals for the year. Back in […]
I never asked for this. And maybe I believed I was somehow immune or statistically unlikely to be in this situation. But here I am, three weeks into chemotherapy. Tomorrow I receive my second chemotherapy treatment. From the beginning of this diagnosis, I haven’t felt shocked, though, despite it being unexpected. I have felt a […]
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2024 in Review
At the beginning of this year, I spent a few months preparing for and making contact with people that I had hoped could join me in building Lightward Bound as an official non-profit corporation in the state of Utah. I received positive feedback–people saw the organization as a good idea and something needed. But one […]
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Updates as We Begin 2023
It’s another new year and Lightward Bound has been operating for two years now. This is now the beginning of Lightward Bound’s third year in existence. While I haven’t made the progress on some things that I would have wanted, I feel 2022 was a reasonably productive year for Lightward Bound. The most significant accomplish […]
From 2018 to 2020 I worked to complete a master’s degree program at Westminster College and earned the degree of Master of Arts in Community Leadership. Because of the coronavirus pandemic that started during my final semester, I graduated without completing my thesis project. My thesis research focused on the nature of parenting in Tooele […]
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And A New Year Begins…
As 2021 comes to a close, I want to give an update on what’s been happening with Lightward Bound. I feel it has been a good year, with some valuable progress in a few areas, but there’s much more to come, in time. The most significant outward accomplishment for Lightward Bound has been weekly social […]
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Learning Time Management
For this past week, I haven’t made any significant changes in Lightward Bound’s operations or structure. At this point, I want to focus on the mission work on parenting in Tooele that I started during my master’s degree program last year. I’ve had some time management struggles preventing me from getting that going again, so […]
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Life Happens
This week I have been busy with family and personal things, but didn’t work so much on Lightward Bound. Next week I hope to spend more time on the organization. I did spend some time this week evaluating where I am with the organization. I believe that at this point, I have enough things set […]
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A Few More Steps Done
Another week has passed and I’ve made a little more progress. The other day, I picked up a pack of business cards for the organization. I got them printed at Tooele Transcript Bulletin. When I first called them to find out how to get the cards printed, the lady who answered the phone gave me […]