Ethan Bryan

In January, Ray sent me an email. Ethan, First, I’m still a flip-phone guy, so we’re similar in that vein. I’m a wheelchair softball player, and we’re working now to bring the National Wheelchair Softball Association World Series to ...
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Colten spent three weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit after he was born. In the days that followed, I wrote a song for him and sang it to him in front of his mom, a couple of nurses, and the countless angels in that sacred space. To ...
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“My older brother Dave taught me to play catch. His approach was simple, ‘Learn to catch…or die.’” When Debbie first said this, I laughed and commented that it would make a good t-shirt motto. Then I learned that Dave was 13 years older ...
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I was a feminist long before I got married or became a dad to two daughters or before the word became such a weighty and divisive term. All my life, I have had strong women who taught me and challenged me and shaped the way I live and ...
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Like me, Bill graduated from SMSU. In 1961 and in 1997 there were two directions represented by the first “S” on the front end of the college’s name — Southwest. I always took pride in the first “S.” Even though the ring of “MSU” has grown ...
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