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Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Piano for me too

I’ve always wanted to be able to play piano, and what I imagine playing are hymns. It’s not just that I was once called to be primary pianist (true story) on the assumption that the wife of such a musically intense man must surely must be competent at the piano. (On further information, the call [...]

A Socially-Networked Spontaneous Show of Support

I’m drawn AWAY from socially networked efforts to make ourselves seen, even or especially as missionary outreach. I didn’t vote for Joseph Smith or Gordon B. Hinckley in anyone’s internet poll. I wasn’t the one who asked you to Vote for Segullah in the Niblets (though by the way, thanks for doing so.) When we all do the same networked thing it sticks out as fake as it is. I think of computers infected by the same virus that puts them at the command of hackers in China publicists in Mormonland.

So that was called a malware iframe insertion attack

If you visiting our site  during certain hours this week, you may have been warned by your browser that our site was not safe to visit. When you get a warning like that, I’d advise you to believe it. Don’t override a malware warning and visit the site anyway. Even those of you on a [...]

An interview with Heidi Ashworth

Heidi Ashworth is the author of Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind, and writes the popular blog Dunhaven Place. Johnna is the webmaster for Segullah’s websites, and recently sat down with Heidi to have this conversation. Johnna, for Segullah: I’m a reader. Besides loving lots of books that I read in college or met through NPR [...]

BlogHer

I’m going to BlogHer in San Francisco this weekend. Will I meet any of my bloggernacle sisters there?

Sisterz in Zion

“In Utah, it’s… there’s a lot of… caucasians that live there.” I love the film documentary Sisterz in Zion, which is showing on BYU-TV tonight at 9 p.m. A video portrait of a handful of young women of color in New York City, converts, some of whom are immigrants from other countries, who are the [...]

It’s new. Do you like it?

It’s new…do you like it? Well, okay, now it’s a week old, the new look here at Blog Segullah. The template we had been using, which I had adapted from Juicy when the blog launched, was looking a bit cluttered and drab from all my add-ons and color changes. And, it became apparent during our [...]

How to be a good Visit Teachee. Or not.

I have new Visiting Teachers. To my horror, I immediately begin avoiding them. Sis.M, in church: Hey, I’m your new visiting teacher! Me: Great! Sis.M, in church: So, we should get together… Me: yeah, uh-huh. excuse me, gotta find the kids. Instead I found my current, uh, I mean former, visiting teacher. Me: They took [...]

My most thankful Thanksgiving ever

It was nothing apparently dramatic. In fact, it was more on the order of “suddenly she realized” as in badly written fiction. Roll back to 2001. We were living in Silicon Valley, and the internet bubble had burst. Richard G. Scott had said in conference that the gospel invariably led to peace and joy, but [...]

Popcorn Friends

I made a real-life actual new friend this month. And I’m not talking about a book I resonate with, or a new drug for PMS, or some fabulous gal I trade blog commments with (though how I love you, kiss kiss.) No, I actually started hanging out with another mom from the school, someone who [...]

So, why are there pictures of your kid on the internet?

Seriously. This is what I always think, as I’m reading the funny things your kids say. And I do mean the stories, as well as the actual pictures, since there’s something so immediate about blogging. And something so universal about the concrete details of a child’s life. And something so political about the fact you [...]

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