By Amanda Erdmann
I. Comedy Here is a story I love to tell at parties: On a sunny cold day in March, while I sat folding laundry, a fully grown male pheasant crashed into my living room window and died on my patio. I called my husband who was working in the hospital and asked him what to …
By Bridget Verhaaren
The Teton County Sheriff stands as a sentinel on the crest of the slope in his UPS brown-colored pants, his sheriff’s badge worn on the left side of his taupe button-down, long-sleeve shirt. Rob’s friend Dave stands beside him in his black spandex cycling shorts and royal blue Contender jersey, now stained with …
By Sherilyn Stevenson
Let all things be done decently and in order. 1 Corinthians 14:40 New York City calls. I’ll soon move from little Ogden, Utah to join my husband who lives and works one hour north of The Big Apple. One daughter already lives and attends university in Manhattan. My visits over the past 18 months are …
I don’t want to go to birthday party for Relief Society. I mean…. I love Relief Society History. I love LOVE love seeing Camille N. Johnson participating in the Maternal Outcomes Matter Showers (MOMS tour). I love it even more that the church is doing MOMS. I LOVED seeing Johnson and Bonnie Cordon on …
By Linda Hoffman Kimball
My husband Chris Kimball has a new book out called “Living on the Edge of the Inside: a Survival Guide.” It’s published by BCC Press. He describes it this way: “This book is for people like me who have concerns about the Church that make leaving a genuine consideration, but have decided or chosen or …
By Linda Hoffman Kimball
Dis/Comfort Zones By the time you read this I will be heading northward for six days on a river run on the Salmon River in Idaho. I’m going with my husband who has done this before. We will be led by worthy and experienced boatmen*. We will not have access to wifi or computer …
As it is American Independence Day, I’ve been pondering about what to write along that theme. Since I don’t live in the United States, I was kinda coming up…. blank. After much thought, I finally rested upon the term “Independent.” “Am I independent?” I mused to myself. Well, I am certainly unique. Maybe even weird. …
By Melonie Cannon
(first published 8/15/2018) My husband thinks I am mad when he tries to pick up my luggage. He moans and wonders what I’m bringing back from our vacation. “Have you got rocks in your suitcase?” he teasingly asks. “Yep,” I counter. “Rocks?” His eyebrows rise. “You literally are bringing rocks back from California? We have …
On the Kalakaua sidewalk along the beach at Waikiki our little miss is not quite two and she pops and bounces like a Rice Krispie knowing that, with grandmas instead of Mom, hopping over patched stones and pebbled concrete weaving among the throng, she can skitter beyond our grasp saying hi bird, hi moon, hi …
By Karen Austin
Life’s challenges tend to overwhelm me unless I make a conscious decision to stand back and gain some perspective. One of the tools that has helped me to do this is the Ring Theory explained by Susan Silk and Barry Goldman in their opinion piece, published on February 3, 2013, by the Los Angeles Times. …