I wrote this two years ago and just happened to come across it today. My senior year at BYU was pretty darn lame. But, you know, it was only lame because I made it lame with my panic. You see, it was the first time I actually realized that I was going to be [...]
The following fantastic, inspirational, and hilarious video-parody brought to you by Alice Paul, Harry Burn, the Women’s Suffrage Movement…and Lady Gaga. You won’t regret clicking this link.
I love the idea of tithing. It reminds me that money is just money–and if I can’t give it away then I don’t own it, it owns me. It’s a wonderful reminder to set aside a percentage of my income to help those around me who are in a rough patch. It makes me a [...]
{{Oh snap! What a hot-button title! Don’t let it throw you off from actually reading the post!}} I currently live in a city that used to be deep in former East Germany. I’ve seen pictures of rows on rows of historic buildings painted grey and brown, falling down in the 1980s. I’ve walked through the [...]
When I walk home from the grocery store, the first thing I see as I exit those automatic doors is the towering gorgeousness of a 13th century church just inside a 12th century city wall. And every time I see it, I think, “I need to blog about that.” This is, I’m starting to suspect, [...]
These rewritten hymn lyrics were very recently uncovered in the BYU Women’s Studies Department’s old files. They were originally published by Sunstone in 1988 in an article called “A Score or More of Mormon Hymns.” They are my Thanksgiving gift to you. Enjoy!
“Ironically, the people who were most convinced of their own objectivity discriminated the most. Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.”* Yeup. Think about that one. *Fine, Cordelia. “Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference,” W.W. Norton & Company, New York: 2010.
So…my old roommate announces that she’s been called as the Personal Progress consultant in her ward. She asks anyone if they remember any good projects they did or really enjoyed in Personal Progress, to be used as suggestions for things she can organize. Some people I do not know replied thus, in no particular order:
Some of you requested the full-text for the talk I gave this last weekend on “Crises of Faith”… Here it is.
Husband and I just got assigned to speak and the topic is…. ::drumroll:: “Crises of Faith”
I hope anyone who reads this can do it with an open, nonjudgmental eye. Like Tirzah has felt in her recent posts, I’m a little nervous to be writing this out since I’m afraid others will react with pity, condemnation, disapproval, fear, or other manifestations of guilt-inducing negativity. I became part of ZD because I [...]
I think Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree is the most terrifying of all the “beloved” children’s books ever written.
…that I wish more than anything in the world I could have had for my own wedding? I know, I know. It’s like the hardest riddle you’ve ever read. Here’s a clue: It’s not a royal fiance or a five foot cake or a McQueen dress or 30,000 flowers. Nope. It’s the freedom and power [...]
“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You have to be fully committed.” ~ Eat Pray Love It was rainy yesterday. And sometimes, when it’s rainy, all you want to do is wear pajamas and watch a movie like Eat Pray Love. Paint your toenails. Eat…yogurt? I don’t know. The point [...]
A couple months ago, I wrote a quick post about Visiting Teaching and my relationship to it. In it, I emphasized that I didn’t feel like a forced, monthly visit was spiritually or socially useful to me, though it might be for other people. I also mentioned how my favorite VTs in the past didn’t [...]
It has always intrigued me to hear about people’s “realization moments”–for it seems that, often, women and men come to understand feminism in a sudden moment in time when it became clear, or a series of common events that string together to form the sentence, “Something is not right here.” I have these moments, and [...]
I have this weird relationship with visiting teaching. I really like it, actually. I like it for its ultimate point: to make sure everyone has, if not a couple of friends in the community, at least someone who is making sure you’re okay. I’m all about making dinners, babysitting kids for bedridden sisters, or sending [...]
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