By Julie Rowse
I’VE ALWAYS DONE EVERYTHING LATER than my friends. I was the last girl in my Beehive class to wear makeup. I didn’t decide on a career until I was twenty-two. I left for my mission when I was twenty-three—nearly two years after most girls leave—and it took me nine years to finish my bachelor’s degree. And …
By Nancy Soper
BUCKETS IN HAND, the boys and I set off to pick blackberries. We’re lucky enough to live near a park with lots of wild growth around the perimeter. The berry canes reached out thorny and threatening, heavy with the succulent fruit. After taking a needed taste to confirm the readiness for picking, we smiled our agreement. …
By Angela W. Schultz
Introducing Segullah, Part III THE SOUND OF THE TELEPHONE awakened me from a sound sleep. My husband leaned over the nightstand to answer. Suddenly on edge, I mentally sorted the possible reasons for a phone call so early in the morning. Had there been an injury or an illness in the family? An emergency at Don’s job? Did …
By Lani B. Whitney
CREATION. Creation of little people. Little bodies being formed in the womb. We mammals are interesting creatures; our motherhood astounds me. I am confused amid my early pregnancy as I make the very enlightened discovery that every person I see had to be born to get here. Born? Yes, every human being on earth was inside …
By Heather Harris-Bergevin
Far above Superior today I glimpsed our heaven married To the maiden Earth, and saw her slip onto her glistening finger that double wedding band; I thought: how little we can search from ground to sky only to see perchance one half of one beribboned band, much less two; ringing round rosie in all their …