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

“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?
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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