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It’s that time of year…
No not Christmas shopping or decorations or caroling or Christmas cookies, but… Tithing settlement. I am a full tithe payer. I haven’t always been. It is still a tough doctrine for me (although, Heather’s post earlier this year has really helped). And tomorrow, I may change my mind and...
I Know He’s Real
MR says: A beautiful story and even more beautiful testimony. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 I remember visiting my “well to do” grandparents in California when I was about 14 years old. My Grandmother had been raised in an LDS home,...
Swallowing therapy
On Sunday night, I lost it. It was a combination of lack of sleep, a busy week, fasting (I’m not very good at this) and the effort of trying not to come down with the cold that has infected every two year old in a 20 mile radius of me. I’ve been crashing into bed at absurdly early times, like...
A tale not-so-steeped in tradition
To say my husband and I have Christmas traditions would be stretching the truth a tad. Actually, to be honest, it would be an all-out exaggeration! We have been married three and a half years, and so far, each Christmas has been celebrated in a completely different way, with completely different...
Circling the Wagons
MR says: This will make you feel good AND inspire charity in your heart. One thing Mormons do better than just about anyone is to circle the wagons. As a people, we love to help. We prepare, we practice, we take classes, we bring casseroles, and heaven knows, we store our wheat. I’ve watched with...
Pliability, Adaptability, Variability
MR says: Motherhood, education, career...this blog talks about them all. When Grandma is writhing in pain from cancer– who will hold her hand? When the school calls about Johnny’s trouble with reading– who will spend countless hours tutoring him? When a neighbor goes through divorce and then...
In Defense of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (and Its Readers)
Why are Mormons so willing to attack Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series and those who enjoy it? Not just willing, but eager? I don’t know how it is outside of Mormondom, because I’ve never seen it come up. But I’ve frequently observed Mormons attacking other Mormons — their brothers and...
Family Home Evening
MR says: For anyone who has struggled with FHE, this is a post you should read. Treats are the easy part of Family Home Evening, this tradition that has us gather our families around us every Monday night for a gospel lesson, an activity or game, some songs, a prayer, and then, for many families,...
Conversion Stories: Krittiya
“Seal to me.” Three days after my husband’s death, I looked at his picture in our bedroom. While looking at the picture, I heard his husband’s voice say to me, “Seal to me.” My husband had taken me several times to the Visitor’s Center at the Oakland Temple, and to the Sacramento...
When do you put up your Christmas tree?
In the old days, people put their trees up much later than they do now. My family put it up the week before Christmas and Mother took it down first thing on January 2nd. Our tree was skinny so you could hang ornaments inside the branches. We had those colored candle-shaped lights that bubbled....
Vulnerability: The Consequence of Choosing to Stay at Home?
Last summer, when I was nine months pregnant with my second child, I was overcome with feelings of vulnerability. I couldn’t stop thinking about what would happen to me and the children if Mike died. After all, my own father unexpectedly died when I was a toddler, leaving my mom to raise two...
Random Reasons Why I Like Brigham Young: Three
My father was 86 when he passed away a few years ago. It breaks my heart to remember how, in the years before his death, he brooded over whether his life had been successful, and wondered whether anything he had ever done was quite good enough. His World War II service, for instance, had all been...
“How Many Wives Have You Got?”
George D. Pyper (1860-1943) – member of the Tabernacle Choir, manager of the Salt Lake Theater, and General Superintendent of the Sunday Schools – tells this story about his time in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1897, when he was directing Utah’s exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial: I had been...
Guess Who’s Paying for Dinner?
MR says: Oh dating. Thanks to a fancy new job and, more to the point, a fancy new salary, for the first time in my adult life I am not worried about money. This means I can buy plane tickets to see my friends get married, and I can give people presents just because, and I can pay off my student loan and...
Trying to become a woman who knows
I don’t take kindly to housework. There are aspects of it, such as dusting and scrubbing toilets (do not get me started on ironing), that I feel are beneath me. I find it frustrating to spend time and energy on chores that so quickly and easily become undone. Simply put, there are other things...
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