Segullah

LDS women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

From the Inside Looking Out

 
I never thought about it happening on a play date. My new-found friend and I had spent a delightful day making bread, mixing soup and baking cookies. While the kids played happily, we talked about art, literature, church, friends and living providently while we swapped funny stories and checked on the kids. We talked about [...]

The Business of Making Friends

Yesterday we spent the day traipsing from one side of Manhattan to the other. Our long-time friend is in town, my hubby had the day off of work; it was the last day of summer so we decided to make a day of it. We explored a new City park on the abandoned tracks of [...]

Singular Opportunities

Today’s post comes from Ellen Patton, born and raised in Van Nuys, California and moved to Boston 21 years ago sight-unseen. She has loved living in New England since that first day when she said, “this apartment is OLD”. Her hobbies are late-night baking, antiquing, reading books and magazines, sewing, quilting, exploring in New England, [...]

so much cooler online

I am quitting my blog.
 
Really, I am.
I mean it this time.
It takes too many hours, checking for comments becomes an obsession and, ultimately, much of what I write is misunderstood.

How to be a good Visit Teachee. Or not.

I have new Visiting Teachers. To my horror, I immediately begin avoiding them.
Sis.M, in church: Hey, I’m your new visiting teacher!
Me: Great!
Sis.M, in church: So, we should get together…
Me: yeah, uh-huh. excuse me, gotta find the kids.
Instead I found my current, uh, I mean former, visiting teacher.
Me: They [...]

Popcorn Friends

I made a real-life actual new friend this month. And I’m not talking about a book I resonate with, or a new drug for PMS, or some fabulous gal I trade blog commments with (though how I love you, kiss kiss.) No, I actually started hanging out with another mom from the school, [...]

  • Art Credit: detail from painting "Branch and Remnant" by Rebecca Wagstaff, Featured Artist of the Winter 2009 issue.


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