Time seems to “hang out” here in rural Virginia. It’s not that people have it, take it, or always use it wisely. But, it’s there, just waiting. I heard a story today about a lady who decided to clean the gravestones in her local cemetery. She spends 5-6 hours a day [...]

Kathy’s most recent baby.
Check out the website here.

Please stay with me.
I need you to hold my hand with this one.
Remember Poppy Andy Warhol’s prediction “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”? 
Well the future is now folks, and here is what I am asking, 
How do you know when your 15 minutes are up? 

I have never really wanted to serve a mission. As a child, I remember secretly feeling glad (though slightly wicked) I was a girl because it meant I did not “have” to go on a mission. Even in those tender years I could tell that childbirth would be no picnic, and the reprieve from missionary [...]

One of the great perks of working on the Segullah staff is meeting so many bright, faithful, and talented women. Darlene Young is a great example. A successful artist in several writing genres, her work has been published in Irreantum, Dialogue, Exponent II, and church magazines.. Darlene is secretary of the Association for Mormon [...]

Today, after much thoughtful consideration, I am going to come out of the closet. I am very seriously perplexed about homosexuality.
Not that I don’t see how a woman could love a woman, or a man love a man. Rather, why I shouldn’t be happy for them. I am caught between how I should feel, and [...]

Can we please talk about anger? No one wants to talk about it. No one wants to admit they ever get angry. I didn’t really even know I had any anger in me until I had children. Ben, my first child, was only a few weeks old. It was sometime after [...]

Our Spring 2007 issue is on the theme “The Mortal Body.” There’s still time to send in your essay or poem to be considered for publication.
More information is on our submissions page for prose or poetry. The deadline is Thursday, September 21.

So, I interviewed Kathy Soper the other day. For those not in the know, she is the editor of Segullah. She’s got seven kids (yep, she’s an angel), and she has managed to keep us all on task at Segullah (She’s an organized angel)! Here was our conversation.

Hey Kathy. Why don’t you introduce yourself.

Howdy, all. I’m Kathy, soon to be thirty-five years old. Happy to be LDS, happy to be married to Reed Soper, happy even to be living in Utah. But I do miss the trees–though not the humidity–of Maryland, my childhood homeland. And I admit I like Salt Lake valley better than her much-maligned sister. I had a rocky start with Provo culture when I arrived in ‘89, but I ended up marrying my home teacher, so it all ended well. I have a BA in English, and I’m interested in pursuing an MFA in creative non-fiction someday, when I’m no longer inundated with sippy cups and diapers. I have seven kids; the oldest just turned 13 and the youngest is almost a year old.