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To Thank a Teacher

Last week I visited my old elementary school, Eno Valley Elementary. I had fantasized about going to the office and asking for contact information for my favorite teachers. I wanted to have one of those teacher appreciation story moments. I was thinking especially of these women: -Mrs. May, second grade, who taught me how to [...]

Nominate Whitney Finalists

This year, instead of just reading the Whitney finalists when they are announced, I’ve decided I want to nominate some books for Whitneys as well. The Whitney Awards (awards for fiction written by LDS authors) begin with reader nominations, as specified by the rules. Any book that receives five or more nominations will be placed [...]

Meet the Author: Krista Clement

Segullah plans to feature more of our journal’s authors on the blog–not just posts responding to their writing, but mini interviews with the authors. To that end, I am delighted to introduce you to Krista Clement. She’s the author of Silent Season and Princess, and I lucked out when I met her. Our daughters are [...]

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 [...]

Magic Beans

Yesterday I went out to our little garden to pick beans for dinner. Our beans this year grow over trellises in a lush, exuberant way, in a way they have never grown before, leaves upon leaves, with vines spilling over and reaching for something else to hold on to. Every time I think I have [...]

Witnessing of God

As a teenager I recited the Young Women theme every week in church. “We are daughters of our Heavenly Father who loves us, and we love Him. We will stand as witnesses of God at all times, and in all things, and in all places…” I thought that the phrase, “stand as witnesses of God,” [...]

Inherit the Word

While reading my ancestor John Solomon Fullmer‘s letters last week, I came across this piece of advice, written in a letter to his brother David: P.S. Inasmuch as your vocation will in future be of a public nature, I will give you this little piece of advice, at which I hope you will not take [...]

A Different Tithing Story

I love tender mercy tithing stories: people paying their week’s grocery money only to find it returned to them somehow, or perhaps paying tithing with Christmas money and then receiving anonymous gifts. I am always moved by those stories, but this is not one of them. When I met my husband, his parents were on [...]

Dreams as Spiritual Gifts: An Interview with Barbara Bishop

One of my favorite pieces we’ve ever published is “Dreams as Gifts of the Spirit,” an analysis of dream-related LDS history, doctrine, and practice. I have occasionally experienced powerful dreams myself, and I have always been grateful for the wisdom with which Barbara Bishop, the author (and also my aunt), helps me understand my dreams. [...]

LDS Storymakers, Whitney Awards, Monsters and Mormons

A huge congratulations to all the winners and finalists of the Whitney Awards! I attended the awards dinner this year, and I loved it. I loved the food, I loved the lifetime achievement tributes to Gerald Lund and Dave Wolverton, and I loved finding out who won firsthand. The winners are: Romance: Counting the Cost, [...]

A Dream and Three Ultrasounds

First, the dream, at eight weeks pregnant: It’s my birthday and there is some kind of crisis–a doctor masked in black trying to kill people, but friends organize a huge line of women knocking on the door bringing me gifts. I wake from the dream with an overwhelming sense of being loved. I don’t understand [...]

Segullah’s 2009 Whitney Favorites

This year I have had the great pleasure of reading the Whitney finalists with Shelah. We agree about enough of the books to have fun discussing them, and disagree enough to make it interesting. After much emailing and talking, these are the Official Segullah Whitney Award Choices. Ballots are due April 3, and the winners [...]

In the Company of Angels

I’m almost done reading the Whitney finalists! Exclamation point because thirty books is a lot, and while I’ve enjoyed it, it will feel good to be done with the last one. Shelah and I are going to talk more about our favorites in a couple of weeks. You can also visit Shelah’s blog for her [...]

Whitney 2010 Nominees and Almost-Nominees

The finalists for the 2010 Whitney Awards were announced ten days ago. Congratulations to everyone! The Whitney Awards celebrate excellent writing by LDS authors, published both locally and nationally. Shelah and I will be reading and deciding on Segullah’s picks together–we will keep you posted. I have tried to read more fiction by LDS authors [...]

Haiti

Vast tragedy makes me feel numb. I have a good friend who weeps over wars and inhumanity elsewhere. But I feel… numb, unable to wrap my head and heart around so much pain. Or, if I’m not numb, I watch the news and feel like a voyeur. The camera lingers on a woman sitting in [...]

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