Early Morning Seminary
I’ve been teaching early morning seminary for a few months now, and so far I’ve learned a few things: 1-I truly believed before I started teaching that I could get all my prep work done if I gave...
View ArticleMormon Lit Blitz Call for Submissions
Segullah is not a sponsor of the following literary contest, but we’re more than happy to spread the word. If you have a killer 1,000 words? Send ’em in! It might win you a Kindle. And Mormon literary...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticlePerfect People Not Allowed
A few weeks before Christmas I drove past a cozy-looking Protestant church in my neighborhood. I noticed a colorful banner staked into the ground — “Perfect people not allowed!” it read — and I felt a...
View ArticleFemale Friendship at Forty
I’m a female who needs other females. Although I’m blessed to have a husband who’s done a bang up job filling the role of best friend for more than two decades, he can’t (and shouldn’t, imo) fulfill...
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Looking for a Book Club Pick? Try Sarah Dunster’s Lightning Tree
I was introduced to Sarah Dunster’s fiction when she won Segullah’s fiction contest in early 2011. “Back North,” Sarah’s contest entry (which you can read here) was lively, smart, and compelling. Its...
View ArticleConsequences
The other day my husband visited a Dunkin’ Donuts. Inside the store was a class of preschool kids who appeared to be around three years old, accompanied by their two teachers. The kids were all sitting...
View ArticlePolitics and Religion
For reasons that I don’t entirely understand, I am interested in politics. I didn’t grow up in a particularly political household, and I’m not a very partisan person by nature. (Certain of my friends...
View ArticleFamily Vacation Spots: What Are Your Favorites?
I am writing this post at 10:00 p.m. after a two-day road trip across the great midsection of America. We’ve made the treck from Minnesota to Utah and back again a number of times, and I have to admit...
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Choosing to Work During Life’s Second Half
Last September, after sixteen years of having a child at home, I watched my youngest trudge up the stairs of a big yellow school bus, his backpack filled with the accoutrements of all-day Kindergarten....
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