Birth/Rebirth: I couldn’t say, “Congratulations.”
I read the Facebook post announcing that my friend had given birth: baby came early…boy…Down syndrome… I opened the comment box and sat with my fingers poised on the keyboard. I didn’t know what...
Category: Relationships
Birth/Rebirth: Birth and Rebirth through Divorce
Guest Post By Erin From what I remember, (it has been almost 8 years since I pushed another life out of my body) birth is painful, messy, exhausting, and frightening. I can understand why...
Birth/Rebirth: A Precipitous Birth Story
I am an unapologetic lover of birth stories. I love hearing them and I love sharing my own. I have four children and I have written many times about the aspects of three of...
Guest Post: Marriage Equality in Utah
Mary Danzig is a fiddler/violinist and mom. She performs with her husband Peter in the folk/newgrass duo Otter Creek. Photo: Tom Smart, AP My first memory of a wedding ceremony is sitting spellbound in...
The work of Christmas
Yesterday I read this piece by fellow blogger Jana and it really struck a chord. She observed that most of the work to make Christmas magical is done by women, but ultimately the credit...
Feminist Confessional
I can’t do car maintenance. Rosie the Riveter would blush for me. I want to be a strong, independent, modern woman in defiance of gender stereotypes, so I have tried but everything I learn...
Ah! Turn Me Not Away
On Sunday morning I flipped through picture after picture of women being turned away from the doors of our worship places. The Mormon Tabernacle choir sung in the background. Tears streamed down my face;...
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