Sparking Sorrow
With Marie Kondo’s show on Netflix, I finally decided to read her book and fold my clothes up tiny and pass along my unused items. Our whole family is participating and it’s definitely going...
Category: Family
What I Think of This
The server walked up and surveyed our table. “What do you think of this?” she asked. I had my head down trying to sort out what seemed like a byzantine list of options. To...
To Whomever Gave the Mic to the Church’s Lawyers…again
By a Mormon Human Some are calling it the latest whiplash from the LDS Church Newsroom. Some expected an announcement like this to counterbalance any positive or LGBTQ affirming message anyone might have inferred...
Things I Regret Doing When the Church Told Me To
There’s a lot of social pressure in the LDS Church: to conform, to be a good missionary, to do things the “right” way, to follow the party line. Here’s my top 10 list of...
My Mother’s Quilt
The Quilt written by Kathleen Powers, May 2003 I love how this poem uses quilting as a metaphor. We might have been dogmatic and precise, even ripping apart our efforts if they did not...
The Patterns of Life
My mother was an excellent knitter, especially with mittens, hats and sweaters. She often wove pictures into the sweaters. When my daughter was in her Madeline phase (“In an old house in Paris that...
Guest Post: Reclaiming Mother’s Day
By Ariel Wootan Merkling Anna Jarvis was forever changed by a simple prayer offered during Sunday School by her mother Ann. Her mother, an activist who organized around maternal and infant public health, stated...
I Never Knew My Grandma Because of the Old Temple Sealing Policy
The Ogden Temple in the 1970s, before its modern makeover. Hooray for positive changes! I was married in the Bountiful Temple 16 ½ years ago, and it was a relatively small event as far...
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