Segullah

Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Summer’s Envy

I do NOT want school to start. Right now, we’re swimming in the pool every afternoon, we’re leaving rooms messy, we’re reading on the patio in the evening shade. We’re licking Popsicles, dancing to U2 waaayyyy past bedtime, going to week-long bug camps, scout camps, girls camps. We just got back from a fantastic drive-across-the-country [...]

pieces

I felt the tooth crack, and then shatter like a stone in the garden. Salt Lake’s finest and oldest buildings are formed from Rocky Mountain granite and yet one quick blow from my shovel fractures the rock into tiny grey and white crystals. Spitting the fragments into my palm my tongue probes the hollow– how [...]

a different sort of happily-ever-after

“I don’t’ think there has ever been a premarital couple who is closer than Beau and I are. We’re one of the rare lucky ones whose union far exceeds the sum of it’s parts…one plus one equals a billion. I have a feeling the best thing I’m going to have in this life is my [...]

Dating, Courtship, Marriage, WORK

Attention all Segullah readers: The deadline (August 15th) is quickly approaching for our 5th anniversary issue on Dating, Courtship and Marriage. We hope to make this an extended issue examining every aspect of bliss and heartbreak, but we need your contributions.  Writing tips can be found here and submission information is here. Be sure to [...]

Complications of Conception and Choice

With my 18 month old firmly transitioned to his new bed, I packed away the crib last weekend. I put the screws in a Ziploc bag and handed the pieces of railing to my husband up it the attic. I jammed the lids on the over-full Rubbermaid bins loaded with onesies, blankets, and tiny clothes [...]

the essence

My mom is dying. Just three weeks ago, I was moving my graceful bleeding hearts from pots into the shady side garden. My little Mary wore her stiff pink garden gloves and chatted with me as I dug deep holes over by the rose arch, “What’s this called? Is that a weed? Why are you [...]

Consumed by Entitlement

Today’s  guest post comes from the endearing and committed, Jenny Whitcomb, a delightful Massachusetts-living mother of six, known for making sculptures out of her teenage son’s messy room and always infusing her mothering with humor and creativity. She enjoys life’s simple pleasures like grape laffy taffy and marathon soaks in the tub. A week ago I attended a meeting [...]

More Righteous

Self-righteous behavior makes me cringe. Ooh, I despise it all– holier than thou testimonies, finger-pointing, long Pharisee-like checklists…. Why?

Hi, My Name is Jennie and I’m Lazy

I just don’t feel like doing anything hard lately.  Or unpleasant. Or boring. My workouts have dwindled from enthusiastic walk/running on the treadmill to a trip upstairs a couple of times a day. My “diet”, begun in January, now features chips and salsa (because salsa is healthy—it’s vegetables after all.  And tortillas are corn—another vegetable) [...]

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