Guest Post: Legacy
By Brittany Long Olsen Last year, I moved from Utah to England, and it struck me that some of my ancestors made the reverse trip about 175 years ago. Looking at a statue in...
Category: Family
A Trans Blessing, part 1
A couple of years ago, I wrote about the women’s blessing I and a few of my ward sisters did for my oldest’s baptism, right after the confirmation. Today I’d like to share about...
“Claiming Time to Be”
[“Resting in the Purple Snow Jacaranda-2” by John, Flickr] I am the primary caregiver of two young daughters, ages five and seven. My time with them is the best of times, and the...
What comes next?
Since before I was born, my life has been structured by a blueprint I was later taught both implicitly and explicitly. My mother was 19, my dad was 23, a newlywed Mormon couple fulfilling...
Guest Post: Mi casa es tu casa
by Elizabeth We are fortunate to have grandchildren that live less than an hour from our home. Recently, while they were visiting, we went for a walk around our neighborhood. Our almost 3-year-old grandson...
Evolving Opinions and Mixed Feelings about the Boy Scouts
When my son turned 8, I wasn’t excited about him doing Cub Scouts. I didn’t like the amount of money and man/woman power the church put towards the organization, when it didn’t seem to...
Reflections on 10 Years of the Mormon Women Project
By Meredith Marshall Nelson A decade after Neylan McBaine founded the Mormon Women Project, we have collected 265 long form interviews of Latter-day Saint women from 47 different countries around the globe. These...
Pretention
It’s easier to pretend that this is what i wanted.My life is good. And I did dreamOf this.I dreamt, too, of more. But when people ask, I say “I’m very blessed”, because I...
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