Segullah

Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Unpacking Boxes

“Yeah, G’day, it’s Barry here, the removalist. Look, we won’t be up your way next week after all – we’ll be there Friday afternoon, Saturday morning instead. That’s this week, love. See ya then!” And that’s how my move – initially planned to stretch over three weeks – condensed into four days of madness. I’m [...]

Boy jobs vs. girl jobs

My husband’s work schedule has ramped up, and he’s not been home very much. The upshot of this is that I am now fully aware of everything he did around the house. I also realize that I resent having to do boy jobs.

Domesticity–Outsourced?

Outsourcing. As I listen to NPR driving about town, people talk about the future of American jobs, they fret over customer service call centers in India and the dangers of outsourcing, but lately it’s been a different form of domestic outsourcing I can’t get out of my head– outsourcing in our homes. In business the commodity to be [...]

Let me tell you about the birds & the bees…

I started my lecture that Thursday morning by polling the students in the upper division family science course I was teaching at BYU. “How many of you had ‘the talk’ with your parents?” 25% of my students in my raised their hands. “How many had homes where sexuality was discussed openly and on repeated occasions?” Again 25% of my class [...]

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