Do You Need a Will?

I wrote my will while the fetal heart monitors beeped as I lay in the hospital bed in Missoula. I was drinking my fourth milkshake of the day in a feeble attempt to add body weight to my soon to be born twins. At first, I was just vaguely worried about what would happen to them if something happened to me, then I became very worried. I need to do something. So, I tapped the nurse call button, asked for paper and a pen and wrote a will. Two weeks later I delivered babies A and B, my daughter Lawson and son William.

You can write a will yourself, called a holographic will or you can work with a...