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Answering the Call to Nurture and Heal

Today’s guest post comes from Karen D. Austin, who lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband Michael and their two children. After three decades working with younger adults, she’s pursuing a degree in gerontology so that she better understand the growth and development of older adults.   As a recovering Type A personality, she must use any available free time to practice yoga, write haiku and read devotional literature [...]

The Longing to Be All Of Me

Today’s guest post comes from Theressa Schroeder, who has been writing since she was six years old.  Originally a Northeasterner, she spent five interesting years in Utah picking up a B.A. in English. In the two years after that, she somehow found herself falling in love with a submariner in the U.S. Navy and now [...]

To have Bitten off the Matter with a Smile

Today’s guest post comes from Jes S. Curtis, who lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband and two children. When she isn’t throwing starfish back into the ocean one at a time, she blogs at squeezetheuniverse.com, edits creative nonfiction for JuiceBox: A Journal of the Ordinary, and tutors writing with Smarthinking. You can read [...]

The Birthday Gift

Today’s guest post comes from Sarita Rich. Sarita is from Kotzebue, Alaska and moved to Utah in 2003, convinced that she would save lives as a graduate from BYU’s College of Nursing. But instead Chem 101 intervened and she changed her major to English Teaching. When she is not fighting the urge to correct grammatical [...]

Faith and Ice Cream

Today’s guest post is from Ana Blake. Ana majored in humanities with a minor in English literature from BYU. She wouldn’t mind being a free-lance writer but up to this point hasn’t published anything. (She does have almost thirty full-sized written journals and enjoys writing the annual family Christmas letter, though.) She and her husband are [...]

Switching Off

Today’s guest post comes from Rachel Jeffcoat, who studied English at Oxford University half a decade ago. After a hard day’s work correcting grammar as an editor, she comes home to read, cook, play the piano once the neighbours have gone out, and spend time with her lovely husband. In September she plans to hang [...]

A Missionary Mother

Today’s guest post is from Marcia Stanford. Marcia lives on a tree-lined street in California with her charming husband and delightful children, who are growing up much too quickly. She is a BYU English major currently completing the last few courses via Independent Study. Raised in Utah, she now savors the opportunity to pick fresh [...]

The Naaman in Me

Today’s guest  post comes from Emily Orchard. Emily lives in Meridian, Idaho with her patient husband, four young children, a dog, a fish, and a snake. Her favorite daily activities involve her kids but she also enjoys working a few hours a week as a speech therapist. Before her household wakes up in the morning [...]

Trouble, Repentance, and The Worst Kind of Writer’s Block

Today’s guest post comes from Holly Abbe, who says she is a terrible gardener, but loves fresh tulips. She can make a perfect apple pie, but despises washing dishes. And while you will rarely find her organizing her home office, she finds great joy in organizing musical numbers and planning family outings. There is nothing [...]

My Father Taught Me

Today’s guest post comes from Cami Kesler. When I started playing basketball in third grade, my father taught me that sports are not always about the “game.” Sports, and life, are about doing your best. As basketball became my sport of choice through middle school and high school, it wasn’t always easy to understand that [...]

Confessions of a Compulsive Reader

Today’s guest post comes from Lindsay Denton, who lives in San Antonio, TX where she works full-time as a speech-language pathologist.  Her husband, Jay, graduates from dental school this summer.  When she’s not working or holed up somewhere with a book, you can find her snapping photos, doing something musical, trying (and failing) to organize [...]

Your Body is Special

Today’s guest post comes from Anne Hansen. Anne is a mother of boys, wife of Wade, English teacher on extended sabbatical. gardener, reader, and modestly paced runner. She loves naps, flowered dishes, cookies, and light blue. She writes weekly for Hey Nonny (http://www.hey-nonny.com). Is it my recent foray into the painfully early “Body Attack!” class [...]

A House of Order

Sandy Reddish divides her time between being a military wife to a solider who is deployed, part-time speech language pathologist, and a mother of three wild children. New to the world of blogging, she writes in spurts from the insane trenches of temporary single parenthood… The pristine corridors of the temple feel therapeutic as I tiptoe to [...]

A Common Thread

Julia M.L.Whitehead has used writing as life’s therapy ever since she popped her first pimple and didn’t make cuts for the junior high cheer squad. She joined journalism instead! High school English from a poetry pusher helped sprout a hobby that still sees the occasional blossom. With college came a degree in ELED and a [...]

The Fear of God

The slate of speakers for sacrament meeting that Sunday consisted of four formerly inactive members (one teenager and three adults) who had recently started coming back to church. Jake*, periodically wiping at his eyes with the back of his hand, recounted with a touch of awe the experience of receiving the priesthood as a sixteen-year-old. [...]

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