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Dream On

Though it’s been decades since I graduated from college, every couple of months or so I have the same dream: It’s finals week, and I suddenly discover there’s a class I’m registered for (usually some kind of science class) that I forgot to attend all semester long. I have the textbook—a big one—but there’s no [...]

Abundance

When the economy crashed in 2008 I had no idea that my husband and I would still be struggling financially nearly three years later. My husband is an entrepreneur/real estate developer, so we’ve been especially hard hit by the recession. While my husband tolerates financial risk and uncertainty quite well—he’s an entrepreneur, after all—I crave [...]

My Unforgettable Singing Debut

With American Idol season in full swing, as well as speculating whether Pia should have been eliminated, when Jacob will be voted off, and whether the finale will come down to Scotty vs. James, I also can’t help but think of my own brief moment in the spotlight when I sang my first—and last—solo in [...]

Dog Days of Winter

It’s been a long, dreary winter. February is creeping by, one snowy day blurring into another, and, after a couple of years of change and flux and shifting relationships, I’ve been feeling careworn and burdened on top of the usual winter malaise that often hits about this time. I turned fifty last fall and my [...]

Help Wanted: Extending the Reach of Relief Society

I’m gonna say it right up front: I love me some Relief Society. Always have, imagine I always will. I love the sense of sisterhood, the opportunities to have my life intertwined with others’ through the common threads of faith, joy, and sorrow. Mainly due to an outgoing nature, I’ve generally felt included and welcomed [...]

Peruvian Thanksgiving

November 21st, 1984. I’d been on my mission for fourteen months. I was working in Puno, high up on the Altiplano at 12,500 feet on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Besides Elder Moore—a culture shocked, baby-faced elder straight from the States whose sunburned nose was blistering in the altitude and whose stomach was in constant [...]

Slow Down

In the summer of 1999 my husband discovered that his business partner had embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars of company money and, worse, had double collateralized on a significant business loan and line of credit in my husband’s name. As the whole sordid mess came to light and the bank demanded immediate repayment of [...]

I Write?

We at Segullah have been basking in the glow of the 5th anniversary edition of our literary journal, but the basking must come to an end!  The time has come for you to help us create the Fall/Winter 2011 edition.  The deadline for the Heather Campbell Personal Essay and Segullah Poetry contests is fast approaching, [...]

Judge Not–Or Should We?

Like many of you who were able to attend or watch the general Relief Society meeting last Saturday night, I loved listening to President Monson speak on charity at the close of the meeting. His remarks were loving, wise, and inspired. “Do [our] differences tempt us to judge one another?” asked President Monson. “Can we [...]

Segullah’s 5th Anniversary Issue

Segullah has been our peculiar treasure for five years, and we are proud to announce our fifth anniversary issue entitled, “Inside and Outside Marriage.”  In this issue, our authors explore the many facets of marriage — its challenges, trials, and rewards — both from within and without.  This special double-length edition features a collection of [...]

A Woman of Grace

This is the quote that has alternately inspired and frustrated me this summer: You have met, or know, a woman like this: She brightens a room, can literally alter the energy before she opens her mouth. Her presence alone is uplifting, her warmth is genuine radiance, and her eye contact feels like a gift. Her [...]

Good-Bye

Two days ago I sat in Primary and watched as my youngest child—my baby—received her Faith in God Award and stood at the front of the room, smiling, braces flashing, as the other Primary children sang, “If you’ll miss her and you know it, wave good-bye. If you’ll miss her and you know it, wave [...]

A Moment of Clarity

Heather Olson Beal is guest posting for this week’s UP CLOSE – MAKING MARRIAGE WORK piece.  She is a mom of three kids who sometimes drive her nuts despite being genuinely great.  She lives in deep east Texas and is happy to finally be a professor and no longer a student!  She has a BA in Spanish from [...]

The Nature of Union

Susan Noyes Anderson has written our UP CLOSE: MARRIAGE MAKING IT WORK post today.  Sue describes herself as a grandma who loves to write and a writer who loves to grandma. She hails from Northern California and is the mother of four grown children and the grandmother of three (who still have a lot of [...]

Behold Your Little Ones

Today’s guest author is Nan.  Her three little boys keep her hopping. It is a good thing that she likes camping, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Legos almost as much as they do. Or more. She is always up for an adventure, as long as she remembers to pack plenty of snacks and diapers. Besides doing [...]

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