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- Flooding the Book of Mormon with the Book of Mormon
- Battle Hymn of My Mormon Mother
- A Celebration of Motherhood
- Motherhood Is Not the Essense of my Personhood
- 3 Little Gurus
- 59 Psaltery & Lyre: James A. Clark, “Elegy for a Stranger”
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60 Psaltery & Lyre: Jeremy Windham, “Goliath in Love”
“Summer has never gifted me with love, / the sparkling spell of July’s golden hand / does not know my shoulders. . . .” -
Flooding the Book of Mormon with the Book of Mormon
In October of 1988, President Ezra Taft Benson stated: “I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the... -
Battle Hymn of My Mormon Mother
First thing: It is somewhat appropriate that my tribute to my mom is showing up after Mother’s Day proper. My card and gift also showed up after Mother’s Day proper.... -
A Celebration of Motherhood
Mother’s Day is a pretty complex day–full of pain, annoyance, and sadness for a lot of women for a whole host of reasons, as well as fun memories and love... -
Motherhood Is Not the Essense of my Personhood
Dear Kennedy, Marin, and Stuart, Mother’s Day is tomorrow. Mother’s Day is not my favorite–for a whole host of reasons I’m quite sure y’all know about because I tend to... -
3 Little Gurus
“The greatest advantage of not having children must be that you can go on believing that you are a nice person. Once you have children, you realize how wars start.”...
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59 Psaltery & Lyre: James A. Clark, “Elegy for a Stranger”
“God, what a shame / to die so young. Soon after, the rain came. / Fat, angry drops began to pelt and sting / my skin.” -
[Mormon] Mother’s Prayer for Its Child
It’s a week long homage to Bossypants by Tina Fey this week, for the backstory, check out Heidi’s explanation. Alongside her witty talk of feminism, work and spirituality, Fey coins... -
A Celebration of Motherhood
Last night while I was running, I had the idea that we should put together a slideshow of pictures of mothers or grandmothers or other mother-figures. Or of ourselves as... -
Mama Drama
As Mother’s Day approaches, it’s the usual time I psychologically rent a limo so I can take my inevitable guilt trip in style. Leading up to this day of celebration,... -
“Motherhood” in six short words
A few months ago, I was lucky enough to spend three blissful days reading, writing, walking, jogging, eating, and mostly gabbing for hours with four amazing women. (Before this weekend,...
