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Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Mormons, Mormons Everywhere

When I moved to Minnesota in 1998, a number of my new Midwestern friends and acquaintances saw my Mormonism as a curiosity. Many of the people I met had never known a Mormon “in real life” before, and a few held some interesting misconceptions. A woman in my MFA program assumed I had left the [...]

A Lucky Cow

It’s a phenomenon more puzzling than a Sunday crossword, but more certain than the stars. In fact I could set the compass of my last few years by it: the sticky whirl, the push and pull, the confusion and wonder of a mother daughter relationship. My mom and I get along great, but I’m no [...]

My most thankful Thanksgiving ever

It was nothing apparently dramatic. In fact, it was more on the order of “suddenly she realized” as in badly written fiction. Roll back to 2001. We were living in Silicon Valley, and the internet bubble had burst. Richard G. Scott had said in conference that the gospel invariably led to peace and joy, but [...]

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