Segullah

Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Line Upon Line, Precept on Precept

The lines have become more fluid over the years- sometimes invisible, sometimes deep. But I ask myself, “Should they exist at all?”

SEGULLAH WRITING RETREAT REGISTRATION DEADLINE

This is your last week to sign up for our Writer’s Retreat coming up on June 26th! The deadline is Friday! Lunch is included in your registration, but dinner must be paid for separately. We will not be able to accept dinner registrations after Friday. We can’t wait to see you there! Please see our [...]

The Marriage Bed

This morning one of the children woke up too early. He started bouncing a rubber ball against the wall of his room. The steady rhythm woke us up. My husband’s long, dark arm went under the blankets and found me and pulled me to him. We lay there in the morning [...]

Sunbeams, Prostitution, and Footsteps in the Sand.

I had a strange Sabbath. To put it bluntly, I wasn’t feeling the Spirit. I wish I could say that I have no one to blame but myself, but I am blaming others as well. Mea Culpa? You be the judge.
The first aggravation is that TPTB have put me as the Sunbeam teacher. The Sunbeams [...]

A welcome or unwelcome guest?

Well, it happened yesterday. I had a guest arrive who decided to move in permanently. I was surprised when I answered the door and there she stood. I eyed her warily, wondering how she found me. We looked at each other for a few moments, she waiting for my reaction, me, wondering how [...]

My Husband Seems to Attract Them….

Wherever we go, my husband seems to attract them. They come up to him when we are standing in lines, eating at restaurants, parking our car, or walking in to the movie theater. They want to talk. Some of them have a bit of a belly, some are thin, some walk slowly [...]

What’s in a Name?

“Cadmus – too heavy.
Caesar – too Roman.
Cailan- too common.
Cain – too damned.
Caldwell- too last-namish.
Caleb – Hey, I think I like that name.” I looked up at my husband over my bulging stomach and the Best Baby Name Book resting on top. His mouth was wide open. “What do you think?” [...]

Who are the Prepared People in your Neighborhood?

If life is a stage and we are all players, then why is it that someone who has been sitting in the audience suddenly steps up on the center stage of one’s life and takes the limelight. That is how I feel about the next “person in my neighborhood.”

Who are the people in your neighborhood?

Can you hear Mr. Roger’s singing, “Who are the people in your neighborhood? in your neighborhood?  in your neighborho-oo-od?” Please keep that theme in your mind as you read this entry, because we are going to start a regular feature on Segullah blog (if we get a good response, that is) where we introduce one [...]

WARNING! CONTENT MIGHT BE OFFENSIVE OR WITHOUT MERIT! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

My fourteenth wedding anniversary was a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t know what to buy my husband to celebrate the auspicious occasion. After much searching, the Hugh Nibley and Mormon Tab CD I settled on didn’t seem quite what I was looking for. I wanted to get him something a little more racy. [...]

Consider the Lilacs!

Some of the greatest lessons I learned about motherhood I learned from my father.

Built like Grandma…

I am built like my Grandma Cannon. I would always marvel when we laid our hands side by side. They looked like hands from the same person – hers because they were so young looking for her ninety-five years and mine because they looked so old. I have inherited her extreme short-waist, her high forehead, [...]

Hold That Thought!

When I was 9 years old, my family was sitting on the front bench in Sacrament Meeting. My Mom, probably occupied with a baby, asked me to tell her what page the opening hymn was on. I looked up and couldn’t see it. “I don’t know. It’s too far away,” I [...]

Don’t Leave Home Without It–Writing Tips from Melonie Cannon

Take a moment today and open your purse. Really
examine its contents. Let’s open mine, shall we?