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Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Pot Luck?

A few years ago, my sister went to church at a singles ward where they had a potluck every Sunday. Some weeks they called it “Break the Fast,” and other weeks it was a “Linger Longer” but the basic concept was the same. The girls plugged their crockpots in the kitchen before sacrament meeting, the [...]

C’mon over, the show’s just starting

When Eddie and I were newlyweds, our next-door neighbors, the only other LDS family in our apartment complex, called us begging: “We have to go to this party and we can’t bring the kids. Would you mind watching them? We promise we’ll put them to bed before you get here.” When we showed up on [...]

Covered Wagons and Carnations

A couple of nights ago, I was at the grocery store, eager to get home, when I realized I’d put my stuff on the belt of the chatty checker. He’s the guy who loves to whine about the people he’s helped that day, or tell me about his sick dog, and while I try to [...]

Is there a magic number?

A couple of weeks ago my visiting teachers came to over, and while they were friendly and chatty, it was evident that they were eager to get somewhere. “Are you visiting someone after me?” I asked. “We’re going to see if my baby will give up the goods,” Sister S said, elbowing her companion, who [...]

Interview with Featured Artist Maralise Petersen

You may be familiar with the beautiful writing of Maralise Petersen, who worked as Segullah’s intrepid blog editor for several years, but you might not know that she’s also an artist. Maralise, who now works as the Art Editor for the journal, had to have her arm twisted by the entire staff to allow us [...]

Catching the worm

When I was five, I was the flower girl at my godmother’s wedding. At the evening reception, I curled up under the dinner table and willed myself to sleep, anxious that if I stayed up too late, I might be tired the next day. When I was eight, we went to my parents’ friends house [...]

Are you bored with blogs?

A few years ago, I ate, slept, dreamt and breathed blogs. I wrote nearly every day, commented regularly on my friends’ blogs and on blogs around the bloggernacle, and looked forward to the odd spare minute when I could sit down with Google Reader and get my fix. Gradually, every day blogging turned into every [...]

Attend the Mormon Women Project’s First Salon Event

You may be familiar with the thoughtful, in-depth interviews presented at the Mormon Women Project. If you love the interviews as much as we do, you may be interested in attending the MWP’s inaugural salon event, which will include a panel discussion entitled “To Everything There is a Season” with Ariel Bybee, Bonni Ballif-Spanivill, Debra [...]

The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad morning

This morning was one of those times where you send your kids off to school, turn to the sink to wash the breakfast dishes, and think to yourself, “Will she grow up and forget what I just said, or use it as ammunition against me in twenty years?” I found the homework assignment wadded up [...]

When your guilty pleasures aren’t all that guilty…

I was talking the other day with a group of girlfriends, all moms of school-age children, and one of them asked us each to name the guilty pleasure we wanted most at that moment. A few mentioned pedicures and massages, a chance to read a book uninterrupted, nights away at a hotel by themselves, or [...]

Gainfully employed

Every so often, when my mom was too fed up with us to cook or soft-shell crab was in season, my parents loaded us up to take us to Marnick’s, a little diner on the beach in the Connecticut town where I grew up. We snagged a table that looked out over the water, and [...]

I’ll never be Heather or Courtney or Gabby

In blogging circles, I’ll never be known by the name of my blog (as in “Dooce says this” or “cjane says this” or “Design Mom says this…”). You know what? In all likelihood, neither will you. I had visions of grandeur when I started my blog back in 2005. Since I was too chicken to [...]

Oops, I forgot

If you’ve been waiting all day for your daily dose of Segullah goodness with anticipation building, hoping as the hours went by that we were making you wait for something really good, I hate to be the bearer of bad news. The truth is, I forgot. I hate to forget things, but it seems like [...]

In which the “maternity leave” decade comes to an end…

I first noticed them early in my freshman year of college. In our Biology 100 class, we sat in twos and threes. They sat alone, looking attentively in the professor’s direction, taking neat notes to read and review at their kitchen tables. We dozed, fidgeted, and looked at the clock, confident we’d figure out the [...]

Leggings with feet in them

A few years ago, Jessica Seinfeld’s Deceptively Delicious was all the rage among the  moms I knew. My oldest, now nine, survives on a diet of chicken nuggets, cheeseburgers, fruit roll ups, orange juice and chocolate milkshakes, and many well-intentioned friends suggested I buy the book. They knew about my struggles to get him to [...]

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