A Day in My Life (a few years ago)
This is a repost of a post I did for FMH‘s A Day in the Life series. I’m resurrecting it now because my little sister recently had her second baby and is feeling overwhelmed. Hopefully this will help...
View ArticleThe Fine Art of Spiritual Vaccines
I was recently called as my ward’s early-morning seminary teacher. I’ll pause to let you all wince. There are many challenges to this calling, but, to my surprise, waking up at 5:15 AM is not the...
View ArticleMothering
My husband and I are working on adopting, which is a large part of why I’ve been mostly absent here for the last year. I wrote this post last night on our adoption blog, but I thought it might generate...
View ArticleLions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
My wife’s life changed forever on a hot summer evening when she was 12 years old. Up until then she had lived a fairly sheltered life in a predominantly Mormon community in a cookie-cutter suburb in...
View ArticleSometimes I Dream
Sometimes I dream that I’m watching a girl drown. The water is deep and dark, the current is strong yet gentle, almost caressing her. It seems to be a slow-motion drowning, lacking in drama and...
View ArticleNo, there have not been 30 talks about child abuse in General Conference...
The Mormon Newsroom article on child abuse from 2010 that was recently published with a 2016 date (because of a “technical error”) includes the following claim, as evidence of how seriously the Church...
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Family size and church leadership
This guest post comes to us courtesy of Christian N. K. Anderson. Recently, a friend told me her bishop came up to her, touched her belly, and asked, “Sister, when are you going to bring more spirit...
View ArticleLet’s Support Breastfeeding Mothers and Children
The folks at the Exponent have launched an action to request that Church leaders make a policy that mothers are permitted to breastfeed their children publicly in LDS churches. I think it’s deeply...
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Good, Good, Good
When I started school at BYU, back in the 1990s, the school used to celebrate the day before Thanksgiving by bringing a bunch of wrecked cars onto campus and leaving them in various quads to remind us...
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