At the Exponent II retreat, one session focused on nonviolent communication. Not only did I enjoy every second of Victoria’s dynamic stage presence, but I also was very attracted to these new ideas of...
Family / history / Relationships
by EmilyCC · Published August 20, 2007 · Last modified August 21, 2016
Rose-Colored Glasses Name Withheld Volume 13, Number 2 (1987) There couldn’t have been a more model Mormon family than ours. I was serving as the stake Relief Society president; my husband was a former...
Last Sunday, our RS lesson was on “Let Virtue Garnish Thy Thoughts.” i.e. pornography. In my ward, this seems to be a rather frequent lesson topic. I appreciated the RS women’s comments and stories....
So, the other day, it happened again. I was talking with my mother. Telling her about going to the 1st birthday of my friend’s daughter. Then my mother started telling me about so-and-so who...
The Church is big into protecting marriage. In the United States, that seems to often mean deeply discouraging out of wedlock births and politically lobbying against homosexual unions. But, according to Stephanie Coontz, who...
Thank you, Michelle, for writing this thought-provoking post.Michelle writes:4 Zinas, by Martha Sonntag Bradley and Mary Brown Firmage Woodward, is a matrilineal family biography that chronicles the lives of four generations of Mormon women,...
Lately I’ve been thinking about two categories of people in our ward: (1) Long-term members who lay down roots (mostly old-timers who have lived in this city for most, if not all, of their...
The other night I was chatting with my friends and I mentioned that I was wearing my ‘filter’—that magical device that prevents me from blurting out rude comments at inappropriate moments [this came up...
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