What I learned from my mother
My mom’s atypical. We love to hear the story when she was thrown out of the BYU pool in the 1960’s for wearing a bikini. Scandalous! She loved wearing miniskirts, too. She sat barefoot at the feet of...
View ArticleNot Every Shot Will be a Slam Dunk
I never thought I’d have a spiritual experience at a pep rally. Then I had an epiphany last month during a performance by the university’s dunk team. A group of athletes brought out several trampolines...
View ArticleMixed-Type Relationships and Resistance to Family Time
Trying to promote family unity often feels like I’m a drum major, gleefully leading the marching band down a parade route, only to turn around and find that the other members of my family have...
View ArticleWelcome to My Home
Yesterday I wasn’t feeling well and spent most of the day binge-watching the latest season of Queer Eye on Netflix. The show always gets me thinking about my life and whether it is working for me, and...
View ArticleHome Bittersweet Home
Recently my two sisters and a niece – all from the Midwest – were with me at my Utah home. We had great adventures – dodging rainstorms at the Park City Art Fair, visiting the Springville Art Museum,...
View ArticleA Visitation with Crystal Despain
Segullah’s journal has the pleasure to highlight the works of one of our 2019 Visual Art Contest winners, Crystal Despain. Crystal’s vibrant and shimmering painting “Visitation” stunned us with its...
View ArticleMine is a Home
The author of today’s post lives in the Mountain West with her family. The first priesthood blessing I remember receiving occurred when I was nearly ten years old. I was going to get my tonsils out the...
View ArticleWitnessing the Work of Grandmothers
As a college student, I noted the work of grandmothers when my Grandma Viola (Hanks Dick Hemming) would mail me a dozen of her famous raisin-filled cookies that were inexplicably fresh and delicious...
View Article2021 Fall Poetry
phototropism peat moss swells with water ready for new life seeds are placed, labeled carefully a lesson from the year of twelve yellow tomato plants left to rest. no light needed little sprouts...
View ArticleAn Interview with Louise and Tom Plummer
From the Archives (January 11, 2011): SEVERAL MONTHS AGO I emailed Louise Plummer to see if I could interview her and her husband, Tom, for our “Inside and Outside Marriage” issue. “Sure,” she...
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