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Archive for June, 2012
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Grondahl Restored 24
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35 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: A Visit to the Grandin Printing Shop on E. Main
I’m in the Grandin Printing Shop on E. Main in Palmyra. An affable guide is doing his best to impose some structure on our visit, but I’m not cooperating. -
4 Psaltery & Lyre: Aaron Michael Kline, Two Poems
Aaron Michael Kline received his BA in Theatre and English from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. -
PROUD
Part 1 – Setting the Stage Earlier this week I sat and thought about the weekend. Should I march in the Pride Parade? Do I belong there – as a... -
525,600 minutes
We’re on a family trip. Notice that I didn’t call it a family “vacation” because that implies rest and relaxation, which this experience does not include. We travel about once... -
My Own Personal Canon: Being Happy
Before we begin, I have a few announcements to make. First, I turned forty this week. I know! That’s a birthday to be reckoned with. No joking around with the decade-commencing... -
34 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Charity by Force?
All those in favor of building a new sports stadium, please bring $100 cash and come down this Saturday and Sunday to help pour concrete. . . -
Walk to Church in Hyde Park, Chicago
Today’s Walk to Church comes to us from Jenna in Chicago, who writes: We are moving from Chicago to the Bay Area this year, and I finally convinced my husband... -
Grondahl 23
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3 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “The Death of Ginny”
Sarah Dunster is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her poems have been published in Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought, Segullah Magazine, and Victorian Violet Press. -
Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut
Last week I read this comment in an online Facebook group: “My daughter’s handout from Young Women’s today: Your greatest role in life is to be wife to your “sweetart”... -
Teaching Sex: Confronting Corianton
He came home weeping after meeting with the Lord’s representative and feeling like he was dirt because he was told he was committing a sin . . . -
Ride to Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Joanna in Albuquerque. Joanna is one of the first non-Mormon people to send us a ride to church, so props to her... -
Teaching Sex: It’s Not the Stork
Sometimes, he would preface with, “do you really want to know, because you won’t be able to un-know it.” -
2 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, Two Poems
M. Brett Gaffney graduated with a BA in English from Stephen F. Austin University and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. -
Teaching Sex: Sex Talk (Somewhat) Misremembered
My only hope now is that my son will also positively misremember my talk with him. -
I’m not a Runner
I recently went to the doctor to discuss my “blood pressure issue” (read = I have high blood pressure). My regular physician recently had a baby, so her husband (with... -
Letting Live
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that my perspective on life is limited. Life itself is complex and multi-faceted, and the more I am able to listen to other... -
Grondahl 22
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Ride to Pride
Today’s Ride to Pride is a slideshow of pictures from last week’s Pride Parade in Salt Lake City, UT in which nearly 300 straight Mormons marched in support of their... -
Teaching Sex: On Reframing Negative Assumptions
It’s time to get rid of the “sin next to murder” rhetoric: a closer reading of the text in Alma suggests that Corianton’s real sin is religious hypocrisy, not simply... -
Teaching Sex: Two Tables?
He walked forward and thrust in his hand. He pulled it back out to reveal . . . the centerfold from the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue! -
Grondahl 25
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1 Psaltery & Lyre: Our Lord Jesus in Drag
Dayna Patterson is the newest blogger at Doves & Serpents. Her poems have appeared in Dark Lady Poetry, Persona, Words Work, Exponent II, Segullah, Borderline, and BlazeVOX. -
On Parental Hope and Heartbreak
I’ve read two things recently that bothered me—perhaps especially as the wife of Mr. Cheap Seats. Exhibit A: An article in the Deseret News titled “When children have chosen another... -
Coming Soon to a Life Near You
Saturday was a terrible day. Nothing better than the bald statement, as they say. I was blue, so many shades of blue (NOT grey!) before dinner time that I decided... -
Teaching Sex: My Body Can Do That?
I wondered what it would feel like to take my arousal from beginning to end, instead of cutting it off (as I had become quite adept at doing with my... -
About
About Psaltery & Lyre In the words of Canadian poet Anne Simpson, “Poetry dares us to locate the white heat in ourselves, but that isn’t enough: it dares us to... -
Psaltery & Lyre Submission Guide
Welcome to the Psaltery & Lyre submissions page! Please follow our guidelines carefully: Read what has already been posted in Psaltery & Lyre to get acquainted with our aesthetic. If... -
Sunday Morning
Today’s guest post was originally published by Marion Jensen on his personal blog: The Open Author. Our gratitude to Marion for letting us share this with our readers and to... -
Ride to Church in Huntsville, Texas
Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Karin (sister of Doves and Serpents’ Heather) and her daughter Synneve. [Heather says: I love this post so much because it’s my... -
Good Grief
But in that moment, I acknowledge the reality that it’s nearly impossible for me to go back, for my faith to be sufficient, for me to KNOW that there is... -
Grondahl 21
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Teaching Sex: I Apologize
I apologize after sex. Yes, I literally say, “I’m sorry.” Actually I have come a long way in recent years about uttering the actual phrase. . .
