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Holding My Grandson, Come to Land This Morning from Spring 2008

I cradle you, my hatchling child, and ponder
what your birth reveals about origins;
how water is our first world, then air, then earth,

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by Judith Curtis

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Adri and family currently live in Utah, where the mountains and extended family are both large and near by. In addition to art, Adri enjoys writing, photography, reading, organizing, gardening, making dinner, playdates at the park, reading my friends' blogs and planning parties.
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Web site: http://www.chadandadri.blogspot.com

Allyson (Editorial Board) now calls the Cornbelt home, after thirty years in the mountainous west. She lives in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband Bryan and their five children. An historian by training, she spends the bulk of her time writing non-history and trying to keep the home front intact.
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Andrea R. Andrea R is the proud mother of 3 boys aged 6, 3, and 15 months and the wife of a rock star turned editor, husband, and father. She served a mission to Chile and received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from BYU. She also teaches Microbiology part time at a local community college and is the visiting teaching coordinator for her ward, a job she truly loves. She has recently become a triathlete.
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Angela
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Web site: http://www.angelahallstrom.com/

Angie (Prose Editor) is a born-again Mormon, a wife, and a mother of 5. Her hobbies include vacuuming, rotating her food storage, potty training, breastfeeding, and homeschooling. Oh, and She's really good at laundry. She used to be a clinical social worker, and she also has a degree in English. Angie dreams of living a self-reliant, off-the-grid lifestyle, and she loves to belly dance.
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annegb
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Web site: http://www.mormonmentality.org

Brittney C.
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Brooke is attempting inner om with this writing stuff. Proud to claim three loud children, a patient husband and a fat black cat as family, she feels blessed to be their mommy-- their giver of kisses and baker of cookies. She is ever seeking a good novel and wishing for the sand between her toes, palm trees, the ocean.
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Web site: http://brookebenton.blogspot.com

Carina
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cheri
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Christopher
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Web site: http://ckbigelow.blogspot.com/

c jane/Courtney K. The sixth of nine children, Courtney grew up starving for attention. As an adult she enjoys her weekend job as a wedding singer, being part-time manager of her husband's acting career, and getting people to talk about themselves. She isn't really a wedding singer but she'd love to be one someday.
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Web site: http://cjanerun.blogspot.com

Dalene began blogging as a legitimate way to avoid housework and to keep a journal of sorts. In her other life she wants to be excellent at a number of things, but in this one she's settling for baking a mean sour cream lemon pie, keeping most of the points on her quilt blocks in line, being a loyal friend and aspiring to moments of goodness as a wife and mother.
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Web site: http://www.compulsivewriter.com

Darlene
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Deborah (Guest, August 2007) a middle & high school English teacher, an amateur poet, and a blogger at Exponent II.
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Web site: http://exponentblog.blogspot.com

Emily Ann
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Web site: http://www.emilyanne.net/

Emily M. Emily M. enjoys reading, writing, and singing. She served a mission to Ecuador and graduated from BYU with a degree in Comparative Literature.
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Guest Blog Segullah has been fortunate to have some excellent posts by Guest Authors.
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Heather B. (Poetry Editor) majored in journalism at BYU in the early nineties, and hopes someday to finish up. Most of her ideas appear in the wee hours of the morning, when she can hear herself think for minutes at a time, and when the only sleepy whining is her own.
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Heather O.
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Web site: http://www.mormonmommmywars.com

Heather H. (Editorial Board), originally from Orem Utah, now resides in the center of the world, New York City. On days she can't get in a proper bit of exercise she's glad she gets to carry her strollered son up and down subway stairs, while making sure her daughter stops at every corner and holds the railing while maneuvering those same steps. Heather earned a BA in English Teaching from Brigham Young University and put her husband, Matt, through his graduate acting program by teaching Middle School English in Texas for three years. Now she "stays home"? with her kids, writes a lot of first drafts, teaches preschool, falls asleep reading, and loves cooking (especially when she's alone).
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Jamie (Editorial Board) was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, educated at UVSC, BYU, and the University of Arizona (BA- English & History), and served in the North Carolina Raleigh mission. While working as a writer/editor and teaching Freshman English, she married a Montana boy. They settled in Livingston (just east of Bozeman in the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains on the Yellowstone River), where she is raising two daughters and a son, and writes to stay sane.
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Web site: http://melinhead.blogspot.com

Jennie was born and raised in Detroit, but is happy to call Austin, TX home now. She majored in Art History and Geography at BYU and graduated a week before having her first baby. There have been five more babies since then. Jennie is an avid baker and tries to fatten up the people she loves. After years of "Mommy this", "Mommy that" Jennie is delighted to finally be waking her brain up for some other use.
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Web site: http://beehiveandbirdsnest.blogspot.com/

Jennifer B. (Editorial Board) lives in southern California where she was raised. She loved attending BYU and in 1993 she graduated with a BA in English Teaching. A week after graduation, she married her best friend, Andrew. Together they have seven children. Most of her days are dedicated to caring for family and the attempt to tame clutter and chaos. Jennifer adores good books, interesting conversation, and tasty food which explains why she eagerly awaits book club each month.
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Web site: http://goingbarefoot.blogspot.com

Johanna (Features Editor) reminds us to feed our muse.
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Johnna (web design/website management)--she's probably the only woman in the Western Hemisphere who doesn't like chocolate. Married, with kids in Primary and in the Youth program.
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Justine D. (Managing Editor) has a cute husband and five mostly dirt-caked kids. She reads. She writes. She runs. She bikes. (hey, that kind of rhymed, didn't it?) Apparently, she writes lyrical poetry, too. She clearly doesn't mind speaking of herself in third person. Don't get her started, or you might just end up with a haiku in your in-box.
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Web site: http://segullah.org/blog

Kathryn Soper (Editor) grew up in Silver Spring, MD. When she headed for BYU in 1989, she vowed to remain untouched by campus culture, but had to recant when she married her home teacher, Reed. After earning her English degree, Kathy began a fruitful mothering career. Her seven human births have been the most momentous experiences of her life, but she's also enjoyed her part in giving birth to this journal. She lives with her crazy family in South Jordan, Utah.
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Web site: http://kathrynlynardsoper.com

Kristen
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Web site: http://kris-vine.blogspot.com/

Kylie
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the other Michelle L.
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Lisa H. (Editorial Board) lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado with her husband and five children ranging in age from 1 to 17. She married Bryan, the love of her life, at the tender age of twenty and followed him wholeheartedly to BYU. She promptly abandoned her dream of becoming a world-class bassoonist and postponed completing her music performance degree in favor of raising a family. She returned to college in 2007 after an eighteen year break and is currently pursuing a B.A. in English. Lisa, a highly distracted and early-morning autodidact, can usually be found picking up holds from her local library, playing her newly-acquired Baldwin grand piano, or typing away at her laptop. She is adept at ignoring the burgeoning ironing pile or putting off the inevitable trip to the grocery store.
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Web site: http://www.brainymama.wordpress.com

Maralise (Editor, Blog; Art Director, Journal) graduated from BYU in Humanities and History, currently works as a freelance photographer, and lives in Austria. She is on leave from Virginia Commonwealth University and likes to call herself a student no matter how far away she is from her last (or next!) degree. She has two small children, each of whom took a piece of her sanity and a husband who has to deal with what is left. She loves to read, paint the walls (anyone's walls) very bright colors, and wants to figure out how to have it all, one day at a time. She also blogs at Reluctant Nomad.
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Web site: http://www.mlphotodesign.com/blog

Melissa Y. (Assistant Editor) is a native of Utah and currently resides in Smithfield with her husband and four children. She graduated from BYU with a degree in communication studies and a music minor. She enjoys writing, reading, music, gardening, painting, and being a full-time mom.
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Melonie
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Michelle L.
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Web site: http://www.scenesfromthewild.blogspot.com

Natalie Natalie was born in the summer of her twenty-seventh year, coming home to a place she'd never been before. When she realized she was married and had two kids, she drowned herself in genealogy and never looked back. Having given birth to three more children (but still ignorant about "what causes that"), she finds herself a blogger... Natalie lives in the Northwest and loves her husband's hot legs, baking anything with "chocolate" in its name, and the occasional blue sky.
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Web site: http://genealogygeek.blogspot.com/

Sali Kai (Guest, January 17, 2007) asks: "I have a question: Who are we anyway?"
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Sharlee (Editorial Board) has an MA in humanities from Brigham Young University. She taught at BYU for a number of years before giving up academia for the writing life. She has published essays, short stories, articles, and poetry in The Southern Literary Journal, Women's Studies, Irreantum, Wasatch Review International, and BYU Studies. She has also published a novel and three picture books for young readers. Sharlee lives in Pleasant Grove, Utah with her husband, their five children, a very literary dog named Kipling, an escape-artist cat named Houdini, and a stuck-up beta fish named Flame.
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shelah
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Sue
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Web site: http://borrowedlight.blogspot.com

Detail of painting "Morning Paper" by Sharon Furner, Featured Artist of the Summer 2008 issue



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