Mind The Gap: November VT Message
This month’s visiting teaching message may be based on any of the October General Conference talks.  I chose President Barbara Thompson’s talk, “Mind the Gap”. (more…)

Oh Shut up already.
Last night I was talking to my brother and somehow the subject of church history came up. I am by no means any kind of expert on church history. But I do know about a thousand times more now than I did when I started this blog five years ago. Despite having been a graduate of seminary, I admit that I could not have told you for sure if Joseph Smith had practiced poligamy or not. It’s not really something we talk about. So anyway, I mentioned to him that I had a hard time a couple weeks ago during the RS lesson about Joseph Smith, not at all sure what what was appropriate to say in that context. The lesson was entirely glowy (of course), no, glowy doesn’t even cove

A Mormon (Feminist!) Image: Graduation Day
  This is a picture of my husband and I on the day of our graduation with our undergraduate degrees. This week is our eighth wedding anniversary, and during the last eight years we’ve managed to earn five degrees between the two of us. Like many other young Mormons we met at BYU (after serving in the same mission), dated for a few months, and got married over Thanksgiving break while we were still undergrads. We had the

Riding in cars with boys
Question: Am I being unreasonable when I request that  my just-turned 16 year old daughter not accept rides home from boys? She says I am. (more…)

A Mormon (Feminist!) Image: Fearless
This is my daughter at age 6. When I look at this picture I see all the qualities I believe a strong woman should have: bravery, excitement, happiness, and the confidence to wear a swimsuit. She brings this passion to everything, from jumping off the dock at her first Girl Scout campout to trying a challenging program at a new school;