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Whitney Nominations Contest

Tis the season to nominate books so that they can become Whitney Award finalists. A book must be nominated five times to be read by the Whitney judges; those judges then choose five finalists which are voted on by the Whitney Academy. Just for fun, I thought Segullah could host a little contest here. Read [...]

Monsters and Mormons: The Living Wife

As I mentioned here, the new anthology Monsters and Mormons will be publishing my story “The Living Wife.” And since it’s a ghost story, we are posting an excerpt for Halloween. This section takes place after Zina, who can see ghosts, discovers that her new husband is actually a widower, and that she will be [...]

The Magical Power of Deadlines

The deadline for Segullah‘s annual writing contest is December 31. I confess, I love a good deadline. Occasionally I’ve had enough discipline to write, revise, polish, and submit something without a deadline. Mostly not, though. Case in point: my story “The Living Wife” will appear in the upcoming Monsters and Mormons anthology. I had an [...]

Cursed by the Nursing Gods

On the day my baby left the NICU, an occupational therapist came to visit us. “You’re leaving today! Yay! How’s the nursing going?” “We’re doing the SNS,” I said. SNS meant Supplemental Nursing System, a bottle of breast milk around my neck, dripping down a tube taped to my chest, beneath a silicon nipple shield. [...]

NICU Stories

I knew she had a story as soon as I saw the neon pink bracelet, with NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) written in clear black letters. We rode the elevator together up to the fourth floor. She had not yet recovered from delivery: still in a wheelchair (her husband pushed her), still wearing her hospital [...]

The Parenting Works Cited Page

I’m thirty-four weeks pregnant with child number four, and I’ve spent a lot of time in doctor’s offices lately. This means that I have read and reread my doctor’s stash of parenting and baby magazines, mostly out of boredom. When I was expecting my oldest, I devoured these. I mined them for ideas, making mental [...]

Vice and Contempt

From Alexander Pope, and often quoted by my grandmother: “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.” The point of the verse is that we can become too familiar with evil, [...]

Final Whitney Votes

Whitney award winners will be announced tonight! A month ago, we (Shelah, Mara, and Emily M.) listed a few of our Whitney favorites. You can read that post in its entirety here, but this is a quick summary of our favorites from it: For Best Novel: Wolves, Boys, and Other Things that Might Kill Me, [...]

Take my life and let it be

Sometimes the Spirit tells me I am doing a good job when I fold the laundry. I’m not sure why that particular chore seems to bring divine approbation. Maybe it’s because when I’m folding laundry I often remember the women in Ecuador, washing and wringing out their clothes by hand, hanging them to dry, then [...]

Wolves, Boys, and the Whitneys

Shelah, Maralise, and I have spent the last couple of months reading and evaluating this year’s Whitney finalists. If you haven’t seen the list yet, pop over here and take a look. We’re not quite finished reading them all yet, but we thought we would talk about our early favorites to give more people a [...]

At Your Mercy

I have this memory of studying one morning as a missionary in Cuenca. I was focused on my study, and when my companion wanted to tell me something I snapped at her, because I didn’t want to be interrupted. I went along studying and going about our day until I finally clued in that I [...]

On Questions

Things I dislike being asked: 1-Are you pregnant?

Top 10 Books of 2010

A while ago I was tagged on Facebook to list my top ten books read in 2010. I didn’t answer, because 1-it was December and I couldn’t think clearly, and 2-while I read a lot, I usually forget what I read (I know. I should be on Goodreads. Or do a book review blog. But [...]

Posts of Christmas Past

Merry Christmas! If you’re online and need a Segullah fix, here are some posts from Christmas past. We wish you a joyful day. Merry Christmas. Emily M: Christmas Pain, Christmas Joy Andrea R: And Mary Kept All Things Brooke, also on Mary Justine: on homemade gifts Adri: on Santa Shelah: on enjoying the good things [...]

When Joseph Went to Bethlehem

Two weeks ago I taught “When Joseph Went to Bethlehem” to my Primary kids. We sang the first verse: “When Joseph went to Bethlehem I think he took great care/to place his tools and close his shop and leave no shavings there. He urged the donkey forward then/with Mary on its back/and carried bread and [...]

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