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Sacrificing the Mother’s Day Martyr

I’ve been a mother for thirteen Mother’s Days, and most of them have been crappy. Ed seemed to either be working or out of town for about five years in a row. The books he got me were never what I would have picked for myself. And the children acted like, well, children. I’d invariably [...]

2011 Whitney Awards– Final Thoughts

It’s been a little more than two months, and we’ve been hard at work reading the finalists for the 2011 Whitney Awards, which honors novels written by LDS authors. Angela, Emily M, Jessie, Melonie, Rosalyn, and I have spent the last couple of months discovering new voices, cheering for old favorites, and occasionally wishing we [...]

Beautiful Baby

I walked into Sears last week to return a pair of sneakers, my baby strapped to my chest in an Ergo carrier. As we waited to be helped, Rose started to fuss, and pretty soon the older lady behind me in line was peeking over my shoulder. “Can I see the baby?” I tried to [...]

Whitney Awards: Our Midterm Report

The Whitney finalists were announced on February 2nd and ballots are due April 23rd, which means that we’ve reached the halfway point, so we thought it would be a great time for Team Segullah to give you an update on what we’ve read and loved, books that didn’t make the short list that we think [...]

Book Review: The Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna Brooks

Title: The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith Author: Joanna Brooks While Mitt Romney is undoubtedly the most high-profile Mormon in America right now, many might argue that Joanna Brooks is the most high-profile Mormon woman in America today. In addition to her job as chair of the English Department at San [...]

2011 Whitney Awards Finalists Announced!

It’s awards season. The Grammy are tonight, the Oscars a few weeks from now, and at my house, everyone’s getting ready for a couple months of eating Mac and Cheese from a box while Mom reads for the Whitneys. The Whitneys are an annual set of awards for novels by LDS authors, and the finalists [...]

Singleminded

My oldest son loves video games. He loves them so much that he turned his sixth-grade geography project from “Japan” to “The History of Video Games in Japan.” We’ll sweep his room for his DS and iPod before he goes to bed, but often still find him in the morning with the handheld game clutched [...]

Dealbreakers

While it’s the time of year to write about families, Christmas presents, travel, and (oh yeah) the birth of Jesus, I’ve been up to my elbows in wrapping presents all weekend, so I need a break from talking or even thinking about Christmas. Instead, perhaps inspired by my weekend of wrapping while listening to books [...]

Labors of Love

I hate going to the doctor’s office, and probably not for the reasons you think. Of course, sitting around wearing nothing but a paper sheet is no fun, I absolutely abhor being weighed, and I have an unreasonable fear of having my blood pressure taken, but one of the things I dislike most is filling [...]

All That I Must Be

I don’t know much about the history of LDS hymns, but I do know that in 1957, then-Elder Spencer W. Kimball asked Naomi Randall, the author of the lyrics of “I Am a Child of God” to change the lyrics from “Teach me all that I must know/ To live with Him someday” to “Teach [...]

Taking Counsel

You just had a baby and your mom came to “help you out.” The baby won’t nurse, and your mom keeps offering earnest suggestions– hold the baby’s head like this, drink more water, try to get him started while he’s sleepy, make eye contact with him. When you’re not scouring the internet for suggestions, she’s [...]

On Epiphanies

I’m in the second year of a Creative Writing MFA program, which means that I’ve gained just enough confidence to be disagreeable. Last year I nodded my head in agreement with everyone, convinced that if something didn’t sound right, it was just because I didn’t understand it well enough. Now I find myself disagreeing with [...]

Milk before meat

Our family joined the Church the summer when I was fourteen, my brother was ten, and my sister was six. We grew up in Connecticut as a churchgoing family, but after church was over at 10:15 on Sunday morning, we were free to do what we wanted with the rest of the day. In the [...]

Have you got a story to tell? MWP Snapshot Portraits

I’ve been interviewing women for Segullah and the Mormon Women Project for the last few years, and one of the things I’ve learned from the experience is that every woman has a story to tell. You might think your life is boring, and that no one wants to hear about your struggles with your kids, [...]

Make Bed. Check. Practice Piano. Check.

Summer break started last week, so when I came home from my run this morning, I checked to make sure Bryce had put the garbage can out by the curb (he had), pulled the hose right up next to the flower beds, and opened the door to the dishwasher. Then I came upstairs, verifying on [...]

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