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Can’t believe the clock is moving this fast. This Friday, June 18, is the last day to register for Segullah’s Writing Retreat on Saturday, June 26th. The registration fee includes lunch, but if you want to come to dinner, that needs to be paid for separately. Registration for the creative writing studio is now closed; [...]

Powder Fresh

It looks and smells innocent enough, with its pale pink label and delicate scent. But that’s the whole problem.
Yes, this is a post about antiperspirant. Specifically, about an antiperspirant scent that sends a particularly creepy mixed message: I’m a woman, but I smell like a baby. I’m talking about “Powder Fresh.”

DANCE WITH THEM on Amazon

We’re stoked about the enthusiastic response our new book has received in the month since its release. The title is now available for purchase through Amazon.com. GO GET ‘EM! If you hurry, you can be the first to post a review.
And speaking of which:
~If you missed Catherine Arveseth’s glowing review in Meridian Magazine, read it now.
~Don’t [...]

You know you want a free issue.

A free issue of Segullah, that is. In print. Delivered to your door.
And I’m not talking about a back issue, people. I’m talking about a complimentary copy of our special-edition 5th anniversary issue, Inside and Outside Marriage, which will be rolling off the press this month.
As part of our anniversary celebration, we’re giving away a [...]

The new mormon.org

Have you ever wished that the Church’s poster children looked and sounded and thought a bit more like the Mormons you love? A bit more like the Mormons you identify with? A bit more like . . . yourself?
Here’s your big chance.

You may have this dance.

Dance with Them: 30 Stumbling Mothers Share Glimpses of Grace
Edited by Kathryn Lynard Soper
Segullah Books, 2010; 230 pages
BUY NOW AT AMAZON.COM
~Preview the editor’s introduction
~See the table of contents
~Meet the contributors
~Read a review

Meta physics

I’m going to make this short:
Don’t give yourself a hard time about having a hard time when you’re having a hard time.
All of us have hard times. And hard times are hard for at least two reasons: the hard thing that’s happening is hard in and of itself, plus it’s also hard to realize that [...]

What you want for Mothers’ Day: Sneak Preview

OUR NEW BOOK!
Dance With Them: 30 Stumbling Mothers Share Glimpses of Grace
Edited by Kathryn Lynard Soper
Segullah Books, 230 pages
Watch for ordering information next week. In the meantime, enjoy the blurb and get excited about this awesome anthology!
When it comes to mothering school-age children—biological kids, step kids, or even the kids next door, with or without a [...]

We Want YOU!

…to come to the first-ever Segullah community event! We’re hosting a day-long WRITING RETREAT in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 26, and it’s going to be fabulous. We love hanging out with you online, and we’re looking forward to meeting you in person to share great conversation, food, art, and writing. Check out the [...]

Dispensation: An Enthusiastic Review

Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction
Edited by Angela Hallstrom
Introduction by Margaret Blair Young
Zarahemla Books, 2010
A confession: before I read Angela Hallstrom’s debut novel in 2008, I didn’t care much about LDS fiction. To me, that genre meant Jack Weyland and Gerald Lund and Anita Stansfield–overtly inspirational stories of mediocre literary quality that barely skim the surface of what [...]

Depression Roundtable, Part V: Parenting Children with Depression

Welcome to Part IV of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. Parts I, II, III and IV can be found here, here, here and here. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding.
In our fifth and final post in this depression roundtable series, we turn the discussion to the challenge of parenting [...]

Depression Roundtable, Part IV: Family Ties

Welcome to Part IV of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. Parts I, II, and III can be found here, here, and here. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding.
This week, our discussion turns to how depression affects family relationships. We welcome Phoebe, Leah, and Esther to the table as [...]

Depression Roundtable, Part III: Feeling Better

Welcome to Part III of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. Parts I and II can be found here and here. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding.
This week, our band of scriptural sisters share how they’ve successfully managed their clinical depression. These personal experiences are being shared for [...]

Mormon Women’s Lit On Tour!

Sometimes I really hate that time-sucking, Farmville-ridden, ever-present vehicle of procrastination we know as Facebook. But I’ve gotta credit the site for reconnecting me with many long-lost friends, some of whom I’m actually glad to hear from. One of these is Joanna Brooks. When we got in touch twenty years after our BYU days, I was [...]

Depression Roundtable, Part II: Depression and Spirituality

Welcome to Part II of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. Part I can be found here. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding.
Priscilla: I was 27 when I had my third child and first post partum depression. At least, that what I thought it was, so I read books [...]

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