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How Facebook saved my turtle

Just a few months ago and right after we wiped the tears from our eyes after sending off missionary number two, we packed up our Sienna and headed out to Moon Lake for a family reunion and camp out. It had been a crazy and bittersweet week and we were all beat. As we arrived [...]

Judge Not–Or Should We?

Like many of you who were able to attend or watch the general Relief Society meeting last Saturday night, I loved listening to President Monson speak on charity at the close of the meeting. His remarks were loving, wise, and inspired. “Do [our] differences tempt us to judge one another?” asked President Monson. “Can we [...]

UP CLOSE: Extracurricular Activities– Whom do you worship?

Ben plays the viola; Stefan and Xander are violinists. More that once it’s been suggested that we simply need a cellist to form our own little string quartet. A quartet was certainly my original plan….. Nine years ago I was full in the throes of Suzuki-supermom syndrome. Ben and Stefan had a fantastic violin teacher, [...]

I Can See Clearly – About YOUR Life

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of spending three whole days with my best mate Tasha. We were both free of parental duties for the duration, and planned in advance what we were going to do: whatever we wanted, whenever the whim whacked us to do so. While she was here, we managed to [...]

Spelling and Beyond

My third grader came home with his first spelling test two weeks ago. We had studied the words during the week and he knew them all well. There were, however, three words with the letter p in them that he had written above the line so that the bottom of the p stem touched the [...]

I knew it was coming; I just didn’t expect it would hurt.

Well, I’m understanding Sharlee’s fabulous essay (the title essay in Segullah’s latest, Dance With Them) a little more now. I got the first “you’re standing too close” attitude from my teenager today. I had been braced for it—really, I swear!—but it still blindsided me somehow. He explained that though he enjoys my coming to his [...]

Double Consciousness

As a graduate student, I spent some time pouring over old microfiche records of The Woman’s Exponent (incidentally one of the first lasting magazines published by women for women in the American West) and other works by and about early Mormon women. Repeatedly, I was struck by these women’s firm insistence in their own dignity, [...]

Teaching Young Women about Sexuality

My son will turn twelve next week. Last Saturday he held a girl’s hand as he escorted her to the center of the gym in a Stockton Stake Center to learn the Waltz. “Were you nervous?”  I asked. He wasn’t.  “But she was. I could tell.”  And then I remembered being a twelve-year-old girl, wearing [...]

We Seek After These Things

As I’ve mentioned on the blog, we just moved back to Minnesota after a five year stint in Utah (nutshell: we’re both from Utah, DH went to MN on his mission, came home and married me, we went back to MN in 98 for grad school and stayed for work, said work moved us to [...]

Segullah’s 5th Anniversary Issue

Segullah has been our peculiar treasure for five years, and we are proud to announce our fifth anniversary issue entitled, “Inside and Outside Marriage.”  In this issue, our authors explore the many facets of marriage — its challenges, trials, and rewards — both from within and without.  This special double-length edition features a collection of [...]

Multiple Choice

I flipped through my journal last night, reading entries from this summer, looking for something to inspire this post. The only writing I’ve done since last spring has been in my journal. I let got of editing duties here and only blogged once in the last few months because I wanted to go easy on [...]

Attend the Mormon Women Project’s First Salon Event

You may be familiar with the thoughtful, in-depth interviews presented at the Mormon Women Project. If you love the interviews as much as we do, you may be interested in attending the MWP’s inaugural salon event, which will include a panel discussion entitled “To Everything There is a Season” with Ariel Bybee, Bonni Ballif-Spanivill, Debra [...]

The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad morning

This morning was one of those times where you send your kids off to school, turn to the sink to wash the breakfast dishes, and think to yourself, “Will she grow up and forget what I just said, or use it as ammunition against me in twenty years?” I found the homework assignment wadded up [...]

Parable of the Grape Tree

The shock on her face was visible. My oldest daughter (age 5) burst into the kitchen shouting her discovery. “Mom! We have a grape tree in our backyard!” I looked at the delicate bounty dangling from her fingers and sure enough, it was a cluster of perfectly round concord grapes. Her twin sisters, hot on [...]

What’s for Dinner?

No new posts have popped on on our blog in the past few days. I’m not burnt at anyone. It’s a busy time of year and we are all scrambling to adjust to new schedules. I suspect our usual contributors are a bit flipped over piano, homework and the age-old query— ‘what’s for dinner?’ Perhaps [...]

Fall, Stand

I open the door to the little yoga studio and walk down the steps. The air smells spicy. I roll out my mat, find a spot on the floor, bring my hands to heart center when the instructor tells me to. I am the only person in the class, which I don’t mind. Today it’s [...]

A Woman of Grace

This is the quote that has alternately inspired and frustrated me this summer: You have met, or know, a woman like this: She brightens a room, can literally alter the energy before she opens her mouth. Her presence alone is uplifting, her warmth is genuine radiance, and her eye contact feels like a gift. Her [...]

Afternoons of Nothing

I have just done my most radical act of parenting so far in my fifteen-year career of raising six children: I have pulled my children out of all extra-curricular activities. Even piano lessons. Last year I spent just about every afternoon driving little people to various lessons, games, practices and rehearsals. There were the accompanying [...]

On Names

This morning at the temple initiatory, most of my names were simply surnames and this struck me in a way that it can only strike a sleep deprived and anxiously addled brain that resides in the cranium of a lady still very much postpartum: I just spent almost nine months obsessing over my baby’s name… [...]

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