The Privilege of Being a Mormon Woman
This post is mistitled. It should read The Privilege of Being a Middle Class (American-Mormon) Married Woman. I admit that up front. We marry. We have a baby. We breastfeed them and change diapers. We potty train them and squish play dough. Then we walk them to school, and drive them to lessons. We usually [...]
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 [...]
Well, I really want to be married.
This Up Close: LIVING SINGLE post comes from the energetic and entertaining, Sheryl. 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 the Northwest. [...]
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 [...]








