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Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Call for Volunteers!

Are you dying to sink your teeth into a creative project? Have you wondered how to spend some of your creative energy? Segullah is looking for volunteers, and we’re hoping you’re interested! We run this blog, our literary journal, and a background non-profit organization, and we’ve listed below a few positions that we are looking [...]

Mourning the Plan

When the doorbell rang at 7:30 in the morning, I wasn’t sure I should answer it. Who would be coming over so early in the morning? I peeked out the window and saw it was a FedEx delivery man. Did I order something online? I was briefly excited for the morning surprise. As I grabbed [...]

Segullah Gift Cards!

Artist Leslie Graff has graciously donated the use of some of her artwork for our first in an artists series of cards available through Segullah. The link is over on the right side-bar here at the blog, or click here. They are sold in sets of 8, and are available now. Thank you Leslie!

Male’ yad

My Testimony for Today As I walked into church last week, I shook hands with the people I passed by, I embraced the sisters I saw, I patted the children underfoot. My hands touched and moved across the members of our ward as we mingled with each other before the services started.

The Ugliest Time of the Year

I hate politics.

Twoo Wuv

In the late 1950′s, a man was stirred by the soul of a woman in his ward. He couldn’t get this woman off his mind. He discussed the matter with his Bishop. He had only spoken to her once. The story winds and meanders for a couple of months, and ends with the boy and [...]

I Get by With A Little Love from my Friends

I climbed the ‘Y’ in Provo with my girlfriends on Thursday. We pounded out the 12% grade, checking our heart rate monitors (to make sure we weren’t dead… you know), we panted and huffed. We laughed and gabbed while we trekked up the hill as fast as we could. We’re trying, us middle aged mommas, [...]

Learning to Walk

There is, in our culture, an interesting pressure about correctness, about avoiding errors. It shows itself in words like competence, excellence, and perfection. It shows itself in how we treat each other in our friendships, in our families, in our professional lives. We are largely expected to behave without error as we navigate through our [...]

Really? I mean, Really?

Overheard while wandering through Borders with my husband: Young 20-something with a Twilight t-shirt on: “Umm, do you still carry any Twilight umbrellas? I saw them here last week.” Employee of Borders: “Yeah, I’ll walk you over. They’re here in this display.” (walks her to a large Twilight display) Twilight girl: “Wow! (looks at display) [...]

Summer’s Envy

I do NOT want school to start. Right now, we’re swimming in the pool every afternoon, we’re leaving rooms messy, we’re reading on the patio in the evening shade. We’re licking Popsicles, dancing to U2 waaayyyy past bedtime, going to week-long bug camps, scout camps, girls camps. We just got back from a fantastic drive-across-the-country [...]

Succeeding

I was at my 20th High School reunion last week. It was strange and wonderful and a little creepy all at once. I walked away with renewed relationships and with a heavy dose of disappointment in myself.

Have you Heard?

You may or may not have seen the recent CES Fireside given by Elder Bednar, but the church has made a concerted point of bringing it to our attention. The General Relief Society Presidency has asked R.S. Presidencies to teach this address in their meetings, and I’ve seen other press rambling around about it’s message. [...]

That’s Nervy

My youngest is pre-school age, and in the fall, I’m likely to have some time to myself for the first time in 13 years. I’ve been considering some ways I might pick up some freelance of part-time/at home work, just to make some extra pocket money. Teach piano lessons? Start a neighborhood pre-school? Do some [...]

It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

Never mind that it’s been raining here for the last 20 days straight, I’m being deluged with the small and tormenting vicissitudes of life, and I’m getting ready to give up and let myself drown at the bottom of the laundry pile.

Games

I’ve been reading up a storm around here. Since it’s a rainy Saturday morning here, let’s play a game. From the books I’ve been reading the last little bit, I went on a bit of an excursion. Which books do the following quotations come from? I’ll post all the answers tonight before I go to [...]

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