Vacuuming the Attic
Housework isn’t the sexiest topic, I know, but since I’m doing more housework than I’ve ever done before, it’s been on my mindt—usually as I’m bent over a toilet bowl with a scrub brush...
Category: history
Pilgrims' Progress Report, etc.
I just returned from the annual Midwest Pilgrims Retreat outside of Rockford, Illinois. It’s always refreshing to be in the company of good women. This band of sisters has been meeting for 24 years...
Reflections on Ironing a Christening Dress
By Maureen Ursenbach BeecherOriginally published in the Winter 1976 issue of Exponent IICareful not to catch the iron in the lace. Hand knit lace, three wide panels of it, making the organdy dress a...
Periods and Priesthoods
We were talking about the priesthood, and how boys get it when they’re 12 and girls don’t have any similar ritual. We spoke of the way that boys emerge into a very visible role...
From the Original Exponent: A President’s Address
Eliza Roxcy Snow, first lady of Mormon letters, was widely heralded in her time as Zion’s poetess and embraced the titles of priestess, mother in Israel, and prophetess. Arguably the most influential LDS woman...
In the Words of Wilford Woodruff
I took a writing class a few years ago in which I was given an interesting assignment. In it we were to take a published journal from some historical figure and write poems using...
The One I Believe In
“Lo taamod al dam réakha”: Thou shall not stand idly by the shedding of the blood of fellow human beings. When Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel was asked to name the most important commandment, this...
The Evolving Exponent Tree
If you read past Exponent II issues *really* thoroughly, you may have noticed the tree logo on the inside cover. This logo has changed a couple times during our 30+ year history. As I’ve...
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