Two weekends ago I visited one of my favorite small towns in America. It’s north of Los Angeles about 90 minutes and is near the area I was raised, however, it’s secluded in a valley, and I never spent much time there as a child. So even though it is only about 20 minutes from […]
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For the last 8 weeks, I have been teaching a wonderful group of LDS women from all over the world about meditation. Every morning I wake up and think about them as I meditate. I have been awed by their wisdom, beauty and grace. Many of them have young children. Some are also single mothers.
This year will be my 7th Halloween with a child. I have always loved Halloween because I love dressing up. Here is her first Halloween costume. I was going for irony here–playing against type. Two years later, in 2008, I dressed her as emo/goth girl. Again, playing against type. Right down to the dear drop
Thursday night, Heather and I sprawled/collapsed on the deep brown carpet of her basement floor. I wish I had a picture, but I was too tired to take one. This last 11 days of August have been a whirlwind trying to get ready to go to the LDS Booksellers Association Convention. This is an exclusive
Last week I had a chat with a writer from the New York Times. She had found this blog post I wrote a few years ago (the full blog post is below) about a time I decided to fast looking in the mirror. She was doing an article on mirror fasts, and had found many
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Today’s stop on The Gift of Giving Life Virtual Book Tour is our own blog. Yay! Since people love birth stories, we thought we’d post a short version of the birth story of our book. Here is a piece I wrote about it that was going to be in the book, but it didn’t make
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I’m not sure where I heard of 30-second lectures, but I’m going to attempt one here. So put on your seat belt. At our recent “special stake conference,” our area authority said that if you want to change the church (or the world) you have to go to the young women and the young mothers.
Blowback is the low after the high. The resistance after the rush of progress. Not everyone experiences this. But some do. Here’s what I learned about it from the scriptures: In the first book of Nephi, after Nephi sees in a vision the future of his posterity totally wiped out, he feels overwhelmed: “And it
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“Nourished by the Good Word of God” Guest Post by Brittany Cromar For behold, after ye have been nourished by the good word of God all the day long, will ye bring forth evil fruit, that ye must be hewn down and cast into the fire? (Jacob 6:7) Recently, my husband was asked to teach
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Today’s birth story comes from Christina Pierce. “I am a mother of almost six children. Childbirth has been a large part of my life for the last twelve years, and in that time my views have changed greatly. My husband and I started our family when I was only 19 years old. We were
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