Becoming a Master
I had a friend ask last week about going to graduate school with children. It was a good opportunity to reflect on my experience so I thought it might be nice to share a...
Category: Family
“Extraordinary Ordinary Mormon Women”: Exponent II’s Coloring Book “Illuminating Ladies”
I’m attending Sunstone this week and went to a very moving session yesterday. It was titled “Extraordinary Ordinary Mormon Women.” The session description promised to “explore the lives of women, both ordinary and extraordinary,...
The Transcendent and the Ordinary
My Home is a Temple My home is a temple With pinnacles of dirty dishes And large glass windows stained With fingerprints and water marks. As the priestess of this sanctuary I...
Why Are We All Raising Our Hands?
“Why are we all raising our hands?” The question came from my eight year old daughter. For the past few years, we have lived in a mission where there was no church branch...
Book Review: Diary of Two Mad Black Mormons
I absolutely loved this book! Zandra Vranes and Tamu Smith co-authored it and they talk about life experiences they had from their childhood through adulthood and what they learned from those experiences. I enjoyed...
How Do You Raise Feminist Sons (or Daughters) in a Patriarchal Church?
[Image: Superhero Kid by Laura Powell on Flickr] A friend recently posted this on a private social media group I belong to (reprinted here with permission): “This morning, my son (11) came into my...
Is Shaming Ever Helpful?
When I was in first grade, I wrote a journal entry about how I’d just learned about Santa Claus and about how babies are made in the same terrible week. I remember it was...
Dating Our Children
I was raised as one of five siblings, all of us born within less than a decade of each other. It was fun—I never lacked company—but individual attention was hard to come by. To occasionally...
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