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Recent Posts
- 61 Psaltery & Lyre: Kay Porter, “Mother Mold”
- Ride to Church in Hyderabad, India
- 60 Psaltery & Lyre: Jeremy Windham, “Goliath in Love”
- 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”
- [Mormon] Mother’s Prayer for Its Child
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Guest Posts Archive
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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... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Have to Be Me
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... -
Parenthood Juggle: What Gives?
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... -
Parenthood Juggle: Only by Working Together
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... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Wouldn’t Change Any of It
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... -
Parenthood Juggle: It’s Enough for Me
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... -
Parenthood Juggle: We Co-Get-It-Done
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... -
Ritz Crackers (& Other Debacles)
“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... -
Stages and Flexibility: My Communications Career Juggle
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... -
Parenthood Juggle: Wanting it All
I was intent on having career (not just job) options with my humanities degree, no matter what educational step I took next. -
Redeeming Asherah
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.... -
Parenthood Juggle: “You Don’t Need to Go To College”
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. -
Parenthood Juggle: Depression and Poetry
“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... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Never Had to Ask For Permission
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. -
I am the Law, and the Law is not Mocked
Last night I saw Les Miserables. Hugo’s work has endured because ideas and principles pulled from the story still apply today. This movie made me think. This movie made me... -
Parenthood Juggle: How I Became a (Mormon) Female Executive
When I was nine years old, I decided that the most important things to me were figuring out how the world worked, and developing true self-awareness (figuring out how I worked). ... -
Parenthood Juggle: Piano Lessons are Worth It
I didn’t yearn for a career. Sometimes it feels like—looking back—that I just fell into it. I was an excellent student in high school, but never felt like I knew... -
Parenthood Juggle: Only One Body
If I’m honest, I was more ecstatically happy the day I found out I was accepted to school than the day I found out I was pregnant. -
Parenthood Juggle: I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself
Now it’s time to stop waiting and get to work. -
Parenthood juggle: A view from 50 years out…
My mother and I started school in 1965. I went off to 1st grade at our little town’s three room elementary school, and my mother went off to college, at... -
Parenthood Juggle: It Takes a Village…
Perhaps it was my cheerless state of mind that caused the tone of quiet desperation in The Feminine Mystique to stick with me -
Parenthood Juggle: Of Dreams and Reality
When I was eighteen, I awoke from my beautiful dream with a harsh reality. I was going to be a mother. -
Parenthood Juggle: Full-time mom/part-time rocket scientist?
Only since September, when I participated in measuring the noise from a solid rocket motor, have I been able to claim the “rocket scientist” title, but it’s been almost 13... -
Parenthood Juggle: Every Step Felt Necessary and Right
At the end of my senior year of college, I got married. My husband and I talked extensively about our hopes for the future. He wanted to go into teaching. ... -
Parenthood Juggle: Doing What I Was Meant to Do
When I was just a young girl, I remember my parents getting ready to go to the church to make posters about the ERA. I was happy to go along,... -
Parenthood Juggle: Twists and Turns
As I was graduating from BYU with my MBA I got a piece of advice from the assistant dean, herself a single mom whose husband left after she put him... -
Parenthood Juggle: “One Step Enough for Me”
The funny thing about planning the course of your life is that as much as you think you know what you want, you really have no idea. I decided to... -
Parenthood Juggle: Because my Career Matters to Me
I had big plans as a young girl. I was going to help cure cancer. Or become a chemist. Or maybe a physicist. I made good marks in school, especially... -
Parenthood Juggle: Rice and Beans
I always knew that I would be a work-outside-the-home mom. The working part came first, as I trekked through college, grad school, med school, residency, and fellowship on my path... -
Parenthood Juggle: Academic Freedom
During these first few years of adjuncting and mothering, my favorite time of day was the afternoon nap. Both of my babies took naps at the same time and sometimes... -
Parenthood Juggle: “The Smart Girl”
In my family, we were taught that education was the most important thing to pursue. My parents did not complete their college degrees and always struggled to make ends meet.... -
Nearly True: A Thong Discovered in the Laundry
[This is a guest post from the man known to us as "Smooth Operator"] Recently I came across a Sweetheart Candy(T)–pink thong in the laundry. As I held it up,... -
Parenthood Juggle: Working-Mostly-at-Home-Mostly-for-Free Mom
After BYU graduation, I worked full-time, putting my husband through his last few months of classes and his internship, right up until my first baby came. Then I quit everything.... -
Parenthood Juggle: Musings on Gender Roles in Mormonism
So if you’re a stay at home dad, awesome. I salute you as a brother. If you’re a full time, cookie baking, stay at home Mom with a... -
Parenthood Juggle: Picking Up Where the Other One Leaves Off
We make this work for us, and appreciate that it is a balancing act. Since we did it this way, I was able to breastfeed and mother my very little... -
Parenthood Juggle: F**k
Truth is, I don’t know. The past is set and I can’t change it. All I can do is look at where I am right now and move forward from... -
Parenthood Juggle: On Path Renovations
I’ve also realized that while my life hasn’t followed the path I thought it would, or any of the path renovations I imagined along the way, I have been blessed... -
Parenthood Juggle: Figuring It Out As You Go Along
How have we taken care of our little ones? The first year of my son’s life was a complicated, sleep-deprived blur, and I’ll spare you the details. -
Parenthood Juggle: To Put Off School or To Not Put Off School
I really wish that someone had told me that marriage does not always change your life plans, but having children does. I wish that I had not had a... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Wanted to be a Mother, so I Needed a Good Job
There are distinct benefits to the academic path I chose. Being in constant need of money is the way of life for many students. Being surrounded by impoverished students helped... -
Parenthood Juggle: A Crooked and Twisting Path
And this is where I am now. I work part-time in my son’s school and next year our youngest will join us for part-day kindergarten. The year after that, they... -
Finding Common Variables in Parallel Struggles for Change
I envision a Church that publicly recognizes that, like its own history, healthy gender roles and healthy sexuality are also not as simple as the Church has taught. -
Parenthood Juggle: Reflections of a Career-Oriented Mormon Mommy
My career aspirations, even my choice of career, have been with me from the beginning, an integral part of me, coded in the DNA in every cell in my body. -
Parenthood Juggle: This American Life
Should we all move to Sweden? I hope that we won’t need to. My hope is that America will begin to adopt these notions of equality, flexible roles,... -
Parenthood Juggle: The Provider, the Bacon Bringer-Homer, the Winner of Bread
We need to be there through the good and bad, thick and thin, silly times and serious times. -
Parenthood Juggle: The Most Important Thing is to Have Options
The other thing is that there’s really no such thing as “having it all.” At least, not for me. -
Parenthood Juggle: The Blessings of Both Worlds
My job provides a different type of stimulation, adult conversation and a sense of pride since I am good at what I do. -
Parenthood Juggle: Just as Valuable
As a woman, I wasn’t supposed to be actively seeking someone to marry, right? -
Parenthood Juggle: From SAHM to Single Parent
I couldn’t quite believe my bishop had confidence in my ability to be in charge. “Are you sure about this?” I asked him. “My life is falling apart right now.” -
I Am
“And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.” Exodus...
