Today’s guest post comes courtesy of Allyson Condie. Allyson taught high school English in Utah and upstate New York. Currently, she is employed by her three little boys who assist her in her secondary career as a writer by taking occasional naps and drawing on manuscripts with red crayon. She is the [...]

Today’s Up Close post comes from Catherine Keddington Arveseth, a full-time mom, part-time writer. She has a degree in exercise science and a minor in English from the University of Utah. She and her family recently moved from Washington DC to Salt Lake City. Catherine reviews books for Meridian Magazine–we especially love her review of [...]

Today’s post comes courtesy of the incomparable, Ellen Patton, raised in Van Nuys, California, she moved to Boston nearly twenty-one years ago, sight unseen. She enjoys baking, reading, sewing, quilting, antiquing, taking photos, decorating her condo (in a converted school), road tripping and blogging. Ellen works as an assistant to the President of MIT, and [...]

Annette Lyon is the mother of four children ages six to thirteen. While thrilled to be past the diaper and sleep-deprivation stages, she’s a little freaked that her kids are growing up too fast. Tower of Strength, the fourth novel in her historical temple series, is Annette’s sixth book, now on shelves. She blogs at [...]

Our guest poster chooses anonymity today in of the slight chance that her mother-in-law could read this– because she does love her, even if she drives her completely crazy.
Sunday afternoons with 5 small children are chaotic at best with every toy called upon to maintain peace, meals spread throughout the long hours and disagreements breaking [...]

Many thanks to Kristin for her guest post today. You can also find her at http://mindthemommy.blogspot.com/.
At least for procrastinators. Those who were highly motivated to set new goals for the year, and have only now remembered to add them to the To-Do List. Or those who still have “set New Year’s resolutions” ON the To-Do [...]

Juliana is originally from the Pacific Northwest and is publishing this post anonymously because she doesn’t want to offend anyone.
My cell phone rang, and the caller asked to speak to my husband. It was our home teacher setting an appointment for the next Sunday. He arrived promptly at the arranged time, sat in [...]

Karyn works in the the tech industry but would rather be playing with her six-year old daughter. She has supported her husband through 7 years of cancer treatments and chronic pain. Just to tempt herself, Karyn lives in Los Angeles– a mecca of fabulous shopping and exquisite bargains.
A few years ago, I decided that I [...]

Can you feel the love in the air? Chelle’s guest post will bring you a bigger smile than pink & white Valentine M&Ms. Her previous Segullah post can be found here(which will also make you smile) and you can enjoy her fresh, positive personality at There she goes…
Do you want to know what I [...]

Blue is a mother of two and wife to a 40 year old med student(it’s never to late to chase those dreams!). You may want to share this wonderful guest post with your children.
As far back as I can remember I felt like a social misfit. Ridicule and name calling were a common part of [...]

Another lovely guest post from Leslie at Heaven’s Overlook.
Here at the Segullah Blog, quite a bit of reciprocity emerges on a daily basis. It goes like this.  You have a good quote, poem, or idea and you share it with someone and they love it so they share it with a neighbor or a sister. [...]

Guest poster Emily lives in the South with her husband and two children. She writes under a pseudonym because she loves to vent but is deathly afraid of offending people. Someday she will write the great American novel and hopefully have the guts to use her own name.
No one likes being lied to. Or so [...]

From Foxy J Thanks again for Guesting with us!
Since it’s the day before Thanksgiving I feel pressure to write a holiday post. But I also feel overwhelmed by all the great posts that have already been written about gratitude. What else can I say? I like how Shelah blogged the other day about being grateful [...]

This is a guest post from Erin Jones. Originally from Kent, WA, Erin is currently an English and Editing student at Brigham Young University.
I didn’t grow up in a city at all, but in a suburb my best friend and I dubbed UKC. UKC stood for Unincorporated King County, because our county didn’t bother [...]

From FoxyJ
Last year a well-meaning family member bought my daughter a book based on the show Dragon Tales. For those of you who haven’t seen the show, there’s a brother and sister in the show who are actually one dragon. They have one body and two heads, and very different personalities.