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“Summer has never gifted me with love, / the sparkling spell of July’s golden hand / does not know my shoulders. . . .”
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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“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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“God, what a shame / to die so young. Soon after, the rain came. / Fat, angry drops began to pelt and sting / my skin.”
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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In the next few weeks, I will turn 40. I know it is very cliché to have a mid-life crisis at 40, but apparently there is something to it. I...
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This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of The Sunstone Foundation and Calvin Grondahl.
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For the past few years, I’ve been a part of a wildly ambitious ward project that my friend, Lia Collings, spearheaded. It started out as a modest collection of essays,...
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I could do it. I could choose to believe.
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“I am running away / from my new home, / past the blue green / chlorine pool where / the big kids play. Away / from the rat faced girl...
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The ward modesty committees determined, however, that these inconveniences were worth it if they helped the women of the ward maintain virtuous thoughts.
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For better or worse, I think I’ve become a legend in my department amongst graduate students. I’m in my 7th year of a graduate program. I met my husband a...
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“Her dress is white, scored with black squares. / There is matter in the pattern. / The pattern matters—”
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In order to tell my story properly I have to jump quite few years back before I was even born. My parents grew up in poverty in the Philippines. My...
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This boy wasn’t mean. But he was very clear that I, as a woman, had no place in any part of that Sacrament ritual or preparation. That it would be...
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Grondahl gives a little shoutout to D. Michael Quinn. For other cartoons in this series, click here. This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of The Sunstone...
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We spent 10 days (our spring break plus both weekends on either end) in Tokyo visiting our dear friends who are living/working there and taking in as many sights as...
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There is a wide chasm, however, between choosing to live a religion and claiming to have absolute knowledge that one’s religion is the only “true” or “valid” path to God–and...
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I met my husband at law school. We got engaged the summer before my final year but at my husband’s insistence did not get married until after my final exams...
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“But if our strengths are measured / with a gaze, observe the statues / our beholders will become, /
wide-eyed and petrified . . .”
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“I heard the angels’ joyous song / An ancient temple’s brassy gong / Bagpipes, trombones sang along / When she prayed”
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In honor of the Rocky Mountain Retreat XX anniversary, we’re rerunning this Ride to Church which originally ran in June 2011. This year’s Retreat is May 31-June 2. Our speakers...
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Being in charge of everything isn’t about power or control, it’s about service. Men should be grateful that women create space for them to concentrate on doing what God...
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At the party store yesterday, my son was choosing decorations for his fifth birthday bash, coming in just a few days. I quit my job without a backup plan in...
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After a partially unintended hiatus on Grondahl cartoons, I’m starting again with Marketing Precedes The Miracle. This week’s cartoon is the cover to that book. Published in 1987, this one was...
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I am reading The Street-Legal Version of Mormon’s Book by BYU music professor Michael Hicks (and recently did a Mormon Stories Book Club podcast with him . . . stay...
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Today’s stunning Ride to Church comes to us from Claudia, a RtC veteran. This Easter Sunday, I had the opportunity to visit a very humble church that very few people...
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When I was a young mother, a series of events occurred that changed my life. In 1995, a woman the same age as me became a widow. She had three...
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“I used to stand with him / among the budding clover. / I was King of the Park / and the young prince / rode my shoulders.”
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“Raul’s mom brought fruit kabobs.” This revelation comes to me from the back seat. I immediately hate Raul’s mom. I imagine her creatively shaping mangoes and pineapples in her immaculate...
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As part of our celebration of Poetry Month, it is my pleasure to remind us of that wonderful poem in the Hebrew Bible known as the “Song of Deborah” contained...
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Before becoming a mom, I spent three years in magazine editing and high-tech public relations. The birth and adoption of our first son coincided with a move across the country...
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In honor of national poetry month (hooray for April!), we will be featuring a poetry book review once a week. This week’s pick: Her Side of It, by Marilyn Bushman-Carlton.
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Today’s Ride to Mosque comes to us from Norm, who recently visited Abu Dhabi, the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population...
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I was intent on having career (not just job) options with my humanities degree, no matter what educational step I took next.
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“The rectangles and squares of adobe houses / bake under blazing heat. The perpendicular / lines of crucifixes are etched with names / lost and ignored . . .”
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By Michelle Wiener (aka, Michelle Mormon) Today at work, the question of God’s gender came up, and I replied that I believed God has both a male and female persona....
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Seek an education, but FIRST seek to get married and have children. Of course there was also the underlying suggestion that the husband’s education would take priority.
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“I started writing poetry before I had kids and was struggling with infertility. [ . . . ] Poetry became increasingly important as I grappled with the strong emotions of...
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Today, I gave a talk in church about the last week of Jesus’ life. In the course of my talk prep, I was struck by the multiple warnings and chidings...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Joanna in New Mexico, who writes: My family recently visited Acoma Pueblo, one of New Mexico’s 19 pueblos, with intertwined yet distinct...
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How we answer that question will largely determine how much control over our beliefs and behaviors we’re be willing to surrender to a religious institution, and that, in turn, will...
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The first challenge is an exercise in epistemology; The second is an exercise in phenomenology. The first asks what is “true,” while the second focuses on what is “real.”
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My dad got teary with pride every time; my mom sported her corsage in the colors of whatever institution I was graduating from at the moment.
