Our guest post today comes from Maggie Judi, who is a 30 year old mother of four children, and the wife of one army dentist. When she’s not wiping tears, answering four questions simultaneously, and folding Mt. McKinley sized piles of laundry, Maggie loves to hike, run, read, and of course, write. She very [...]

Do you think we’ll sleep in heaven?
I heard somewhere that we’ll eat in heaven, but that we won’t sleep. We’ll enjoy our same relationships, but there will be few words between us.
And sometimes I just can’t wrap my mind around this (because I’m tired and want to sleep). How do you contemplate the afterlife? What [...]

I try hard to minimize the amount of medication I take, but I have a pretty major sleep disorder, and drugs have been a heavensend in managing it.
When my sleep meds stopped working last winter, life got really hard. My health problems (undiagnosed chronic issues) predictably worsen when my sleep isn’t good. I [...]

If  you would like to submit a guest post for Blog Segullah, we would love to hear from you!
Right now we’re eager to hear your stories for our ongoing “Up Close” series.  In July, our Sunday blog posts will focus on “Inactivity and faith struggles of loved ones.” We’re also looking for posts on “Living [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the day finally arrived when our belongings would be delivered to our new house in Utah. The truck was scheduled to arrive at the house between 9:00-9:30, so I got up before the sun, tossed on my running shorts, and headed out the door. By the time I got back [...]

My youngest is pre-school age, and in the fall, I’m likely to have some time to myself for the first time in 13 years. I’ve been considering some ways I might pick up some freelance of part-time/at home work, just to make some extra pocket money. Teach piano lessons? Start a neighborhood pre-school? Do some [...]

I hear voices, not regular voices per se, but a gospel choir. They sing to me in my head. They wear blue satin robes with white collars and are quite soulful. At various times throughout the day I hear…
“Can I get a witness, wit-ness
Can I get a witness, wit-ness”
They are clapping and swaying very enthusiastically. [...]

Never mind that it’s been raining here for the last 20 days straight, I’m being deluged with the small and tormenting vicissitudes of life, and I’m getting ready to give up and let myself drown at the bottom of the laundry pile.

Today’s guest post comes from Michelle F. Michelle is a full-time mother of two little boys and a part-time voice teacher. She has an English degree with a theater minor from BYU and lives in Provo, Utah. She sings like an angel and served a mission in Bulgaria, where her mother was born.
It happened [...]

A couple of weeks ago I did an interview with the Magna Times, my “hometown” newspaper. And by “hometown,” I mean “town of my youth.” And I don’t mean “town of my youth,” really, either, because I grew up in West Valley City, not Magna. I did go to high school in [...]

For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.
–Acts 17:21
There is something beguiling about newness. [...]

If you have not yet read or listened to this talk by Elder Bednar, I highly recommend it. He locates the question of internet usage and screen time within the framework of the Plan of Salvation. This is one of my favorite ways to teach, as I talked about in this post a while [...]

I’ve been reading up a storm around here. Since it’s a rainy Saturday morning here, let’s play a game. From the books I’ve been reading the last little bit, I went on a bit of an excursion. Which books do the following quotations come from? I’ll post all the answers tonight before I go to [...]

With four children to parent while serving in an inner-city Spanish branch, Jenny Pocock (alias jendoop) hardly has time for gardening, reading, blogging, painting, and ignoring housework. She’s always up for something new, as proven by moving with her family from Utah, to Indiana, to Colorado, to Pennsylvania. In this spirit of adventure she’s earning [...]

To give a little context for the story I am about to tell, I would like to set the stage with some background information, as well as one statement of absolute fact.
Fact first.
I hate lessons on preparedness. I hate Family Home Evening or Enrichment activities that involve putting together survival kits of any kind. [...]