Segullah

Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

What’s in your summer reading pile?

One of my favorite summer activities as a teenager was spending long, lazy afternoons lying on a lawn chair in our backyard under the shade of our eucalyptus tree, reading Georgette Heyer novels, while boats droned along the river near our house and cicadas chirped in the bush. All through my teenage years, and well [...]

Tentatively Untitled. Because you’ll see why.

Here’s what we need to just get out of the way: My writing is crap. Also, if another child gets out of bed to tell me something “important,” I may actually start crying. REAL tears. It’s not that I don’t want to listen to them tell me their importants, but I don’t really want to [...]

A Good Book for Christmas

One of my favorite gifts to give (and get) at Christmastime is a good book. Although I realize that the more organized among us have already finished their Christmas shopping, I’m guessing some of you are like me and still have some holiday scrambling to do. I’m hoping that I can share some of my [...]

Discovering Jane

Today’s guest post comes from Charise Hansen. Chariese has been trying to adjust for the past four years to the arctic climate in Minnesota, and is still failing miserably.  She is also the mother to 5 children, the latest of which came from China; he is quickly becoming the world’s most spoiled little boy with [...]

Confessions of a Compulsive Reader

Today’s guest post comes from Lindsay Denton, who lives in San Antonio, TX where she works full-time as a speech-language pathologist.  Her husband, Jay, graduates from dental school this summer.  When she’s not working or holed up somewhere with a book, you can find her snapping photos, doing something musical, trying (and failing) to organize [...]

keep looking »

  • Banner Art: Annie Henrie

    detail from pieces by Featured artist of the Fall/Winter 2012 issue
  • RSS Sister Site: Segullah Literary Journal

    • Augury May 17, 2013
      I peered into a puddle and saw the sky, as if I had lain on the pavement and looked up ... keep reading […]
    • A New Green Birth May 17, 2013
      We scatter seeds in rows of statued stone marked with names and planting year. Encased in sleek shell, the earth ... keep reading […]
    • Blessing the Trees May 17, 2013
      She bought the land for the w i d e n e s s of it, not the trees. But ... keep reading […]
    • A Dream and a Dirt Road Miracle May 2, 2006
      February 10, 2005 TODAY WAS AS HOT AND DUSTY as the dirt road we traveled. Walking slowly just ahead of us, ... keep reading […]
  • More Kinds of Segullah







  • The Editors Pick..

  • Admin