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Slipping Through the Cracks

As I listened to my ward’s seminary graduates speak in sacrament meeting a couple of weeks ago, I found my throat swollen with emotion and an unexpected love fill my heart for all the sudden girl/women who bore testimony boldly (or nonchalantly or emotionally or monotone) and who thanked their parents and teachers with an [...]

When I grow up I want to be a…

doctor, lawyer, fireman, teacher? When you ask kids what they want to be when they grow up you get one of those 4 answers. When I ask the missionaries that revolve in and out of my house for dinner, at least 50% give me the “I have no idea” line. Occasionally, I am impressed at some of the [...]

Boys like smart girls (and other myths)

Boys like smart girls. Girls like Botticelli’s Venus, standing glorious, bright, capable, useful. Intelligent, practical, prodigious women were the idyllic sought-after prize or at least that was what my parents told me when I was growing up. It wasn’t until I got to college that I learned this was not true. Proof of this theorem. Newton’s law of coupling [...]

“Your Mom Goes to College!”

A few Sundays ago, a group of us was brainstorming ways we could help the sisters in the ward live more providently in light of the current economic crisis. “Teach them to can!” a person offered. “Create a Relief Society recipe book!” another said. “Tell them to stop applying for secret credit cards and then [...]

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