Book Review: It Takes Courage
Every now and again, all of the things I love, fight for, and feel strongly about meld into one place—that magical thing happened for me a few weekends ago at a book launch. But...
Category: Family
Guest Post: Tell me, Grandmother
Tell Me, Grandmother Grandmother I want to know… Did you sit under the cherry tree and learn the ways of everyday feminine holiness at your grandmother’s feet? Did you have visions of my...
Dreams of (and for) my daughter
When my only daughter was not yet two years old, I had a vivid dream. It was soon after the emergence of Ordain Women, and I was trying to sort out my feelings on...
Wolf Pack Patriarchy
Earlier this year I helped my 1st-grader make a wolf habitat diorama and discovered that wolves take their pack hierarchy very seriously. Remember Benevolent Patriarchy and Chicken Patriarchy? Today we’re adding Wolf-Pack Patriarchy™ to...
I Still Love My Children
Unbelievably, there is still rhetoric in the LDS church claiming that women should be at home with their children. There are so many problems with this that I don’t quite know where to start....
Mother’s Day is the Worst
CW: Suicide The twentieth anniversary of my mother’s death is in eighteen days. I was seventeen years old and one week away from graduating high school. When I decided on a simple black prom...
Mourning and Remembering
Last General Conference Sunday, my mom got a call from her cousin, about her own mother, my grandmother warrior, Zena. Her body that carried her to both water aerobics and water coloring classes into...
Guest Post: Projects
by Kaylee I’m in the season of life where I can’t seem to finish anything. I’m in the middle of reading three books, two very short, yet they sit unfinished. I have yarn projects...
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