Segullah

LDS women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Failure Academy

“Try again. Fail again. Fail Better.”  Samuel Beckett
In the early summer of 1991 we thought we had the world by the tail.  My husband had just finished his first year of law school and had been accepted to study international law for the summer in London.  Hooray! I’m no fool; I quit my job to [...]

Well, I really want to be married.

This Up Close: LIVING SINGLE post comes from the energetic and entertaining, Sheryl Garner. She grew up in Virginia and currently teaches school outside Washington, DC.
So when I was first asked to write this post, I thought to myself, “Seriously? I’m being asked to write a post about being single? I’m only 26! I guess [...]

A Baby

Today’s Up Close on this months’ topic, Adoption, comes to us from Jeannette. She is a mother to boy/girl twins and has been happily married for 10 years to her best friend. She loves to read, play sports, spend time outside, play games with her family and spend time online. She lives in [...]

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 raised their hands.
“How many [...]