Fear and Other Uninvited Guests
A few weeks ago my husband and I were sitting in the Saturday night session of Stake Conference, enjoying some quiet time away from the kiddies, when my husband’s phone vibrated. “It’s home,” he said, and slipped outside to take the call. We’d left our thirteen-year-old son in charge of himself and our ten-year-old daughter [...]
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Sunbeams, Prostitution, and Footsteps in the Sand.
I had a strange Sabbath. To put it bluntly, I wasn’t feeling the Spirit. I wish I could say that I have no one to blame but myself, but I am blaming others as well. Mea Culpa? You be the judge. The first aggravation is that TPTB have put me as the Sunbeam teacher. The [...]
Fly, Little Bird, Fly!
Last summer I discovered a young bird hopping and hobbling around our patio. He had fallen out of the nest and didn’t yet have the flying skills to find his way home. He frantically tried to fly, but his body weight seemed too heavy for his wing span. He discovered the aspen trees near by, [...]
Tolerating the Intolerable
There is a woman who walks into my house every morning at 7:00 am. Sometimes she goes into my kitchen and makes herself a cup of coffee. She uses my bathroom, helps herself to dishes in my kitchen, puts dirty laundry in my hamper, and pulls linens out of my linen closet. She reads the [...]
The Entertainment Industry
I’ve attended some doozie Enrichment meetings in my time. And some pretty ‘out-there’ Homemaking meetings before that. I’ve watched magicians, painted little bunnies, watched people teach me how to cook, clean, budget, crochet, sew, can, change the oil, change a filter, change a $20. I watched a speaker once do a ‘strip-tease’ as some warped [...]
Feast Upon the Word
Last week during a special time of the month for me I cried to my husband about what a horrible person I am. I don’t know if you do this, but I start to feel a bit like a big ball of flaws, with nothing good to offer to the world, no talents, no hope [...]
so much cooler online
I am quitting my blog. Really, I am. I mean it this time. It takes too many hours, checking for comments becomes an obsession and, ultimately, much of what I write is misunderstood. 0
Cool Like the Other Side of the Pillow
I was in New York City last week and you can’t spend more than an hour there without pondering the idea of coolness. Am I cool? Am I not? These are the kind of soul-searching questions I ask myself. And the conclusion I came to? I am, in fact, incredibly cool. Let’s look at the [...]
Artistic Taste (or lack thereof)
I’m learning that the art in my home is a little…pedestrian. It includes the usual suspects: boards with vinyl lettering (made by yours truly at an RS Enrichment night), twiggy wreaths, pictures of the kids. And a Thomas Kinkade picture. I know. I know. We bought it before we knew about Thomas’ unfortunate forays into [...]
Hot Cinnamon Lips
I was in a right hurry when I grabbed the receipt out of the cashier’s hand—on my way home from work to cook dinner for three waiting, gaping maws. Hooking my finger through the sack of produce, I barely glanced at the lady behind me as I walked towards the exit. Two steps away it [...]
…That Lovin’ Feeling?
Have you got it? Have you lost it? Are you still looking for it? Then we want to hear from you! Segullah is looking for submissions for our Spring 2010 issue themed, “Dating, Courtship, and Marriage.” Our mission is to highlight a variety of women’s perspectives within a framework of shared beliefs and values. So, [...]
Shiny New Things
Ten years ago, we bought a white car. It was used, but not ‘beat-up’, and we’ve had it ever since. Last month, our trusty van had it’s 20th in a long series of car problems, and we delivered it up to car heaven. We were on the hunt for a new car. 0
Riding for Robes
Today’s post comes courtesy of the incomparable, Ellen Patton, raised in Van Nuys, California, she moved to Boston nearly twenty-one years ago, sight unseen. She enjoys baking, reading, sewing, quilting, antiquing, taking photos, decorating her condo (in a converted school), road tripping and blogging. Ellen works as an assistant to the President of MIT, and [...]
The Years They Pass Like Summer Dew Upon the Grass
I recently finished a really lovely book–Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. It’s a novel-in-stories—and yes, I’m partial to novels-in-stories—and as I was reading I kept finding myself thinking, “Daaaaaang, I wish I could write like Elizabeth Strout.” But this post isn’t about my own author jealousy, or Elizabeth Strout’s prodigious talents, or even the merits [...]
Help!
Alright, I’m completely hijacking this blog to set up my own personal advice council. I’ll admit that I’m completely lazy, and in February, the Christmas wreath was still on the front door: One day, in late February, we noticed some twigs and straw stuck in the wreath. Hmmmm, strange, how’d that get there? Oh, wait…It’s [...]
What to do with the leftover Easter candy . . .
I’m sitting here eating Easter candy for breakfast. Not just Easter candy, I made sure it’s part of a complete breakfast. I had two glasses of water, a small bowl of Kix with 1% milk, a slice of double fiber toast with a tsp. of butter. Post-morning workout I often feel energized and resolved to [...]
Whitney Award Predictions
In the spirit of all those Oscar articles right before the big night, I’d like to offer a few Whitney Award predictions. I had a great time being on the Whitney Academy this year. I have read all the finalists, and I was tickled to discover some fabulous writing that I would not have looked [...]
“None Were with Him”
After Justine’s beautiful post yesterday, and with this video brought up in a comment on that thread, I include it here for your enjoyment, on this sacred Easter Sunday. As prophets and apostles declare in The Living Christ: “God be thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son.” 0
Alone
Never before have I imagined in great detail the events as unfolded to me by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland last Sunday afternoon in the last session of General Conference. 0
Looking Back, Moving Forward
In one of my favorite talks from this recent general conference (as though I could really pick a favorite), Elder Ballard talked about learning from mistakes of the past, and learning from the wisdom and experience of others. I was sobered as he talked about learning from larger patterns, such as what is often called [...]
All the single ladies
I still remember when, shortly after moving into our ward, my good friend Melody was approached by a sister in the ward regarding some enrichment activity. Apparently the woman had mistaken her for another single sister who lived a few houses down the street. As Melody kindly straightened her out the woman abruptly said, “Oh. [...]
ATTN All Readers in the Washington DC area
At 8pm on Tuesday, April 14th, the Howard University PBS station (WHUT) will air Margaret Young and Darius Gray’s documentary Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons. I’ve been interviewing Margaret for an upcoming issue of Segullah, and I know that she’s really excited about one of the nation’s premier historically black universities showing [...]
Domesticity–Outsourced?
Outsourcing. As I listen to NPR driving about town, people talk about the future of American jobs, they fret over customer service call centers in India and the dangers of outsourcing, but lately it’s been a different form of domestic outsourcing I can’t get out of my head– outsourcing in our homes. In business the commodity to be [...]
Is church in pajamas better than church in pantyhose?
I always look forward to the first weekends of April and October. In my mind, General Conference weekend is a time when I sleep in late, eat good food, get religious instruction from the comfort of my couch, doze between (but never during) sessions, take notes, wear pajamas instead of pantyhose, and end the weekend [...]
Conference Feast
So what did you love about General Conference? What filled your soul, prompted you toward change, strengthened or inspired you? What did the talks commit/recommit you to do? Do you have any plans to implement new things in your lives and homes? Come discuss the richness! Share! 0
Fabulous Words of Wisdom
If you’re surfing around looking for something uplifting, edifying, inspirational, and challenging, get off the computer and go watch General Conference! We can talk about it later. Oh, and we will. 0
Consumed by Entitlement
Today’s guest post comes from the endearing and committed, Jenny Whitcomb, a delightful Massachusetts-living mother of six, known for making sculptures out of her teenage son’s messy room and always infusing her mothering with humor and creativity. She enjoys life’s simple pleasures like grape laffy taffy and marathon soaks in the tub. A week ago I attended a meeting [...]
Icebreaker
When we were first married my husband used to laugh at me every time we’d drive past a quaint little farm in some charmingly rural area nowhere close to somewhere and I would get this dreamy look in my eyes and say, “Let’s buy it! I want to live here!” He knows me too well. [...]
Thanking You in Advance: A Muse on Raising Boys and All Their Sound Effects
I don’t usually have these moments, but lately they’ve come by the bucketful and I feel saturated and heavy by a type of inadequacy that leaves me lingering on one thought: I am a bad mother. The truth is that he is hard. He is five. He is a boy. He is a middle child. [...]
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