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Those whom I have called friends, 
Whose exchange of thought 
Once brought that blessed relief 

The ocean’s wide, and I can’t step it; 
I love Sam and I can’t help it. 
But there ain’t no mule 
Had a harder life 
Than I 
Tryin’ to be Sam’s wife. 

The bend, sharp thrust, and color 
Of this land abide the centuries 
Unchanged. Earth keeps another time 
Than man, and soon and late inters 
Each vanished traveler in her dust. 

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was a happy example of a “self-fulfilled” woman. She enjoyed a long and fruitful career as America’s foremost woman photographer, successfully blended her work with that of her husband, historian Paul Taylor,…

Brothers and sisters, I find this a bittersweet year for me to be participating in a Mother’s Day program, for my own mother passed away last November and my husband’s mother was buried just two…

Housekeeping provides the setting, if not the solution, to many basic and profound philosophical questions.  What housewife has not, in viewing the unending stream of dirty dishes or unmade beds, pondered the categories of reality:…

If singleness is an affliction, I can only conclude that I’m not a good example. I love living alone. I love travelling alone. I love people but not necessarily to live with. I enjoy company…

Q. Our readers are interested in knowing more about single professional women in the Church. Tell us about your background. 

A. I’m from a small Utah community. I went to college in Utah and to graduate school in the east.

The Victorian Ideal of Womanhood doesn’t seem so disadvantageous to girls thrust into a hostile world “on their own.” When you remain single, society takes away the advantages of being a girl and forces upon…

Dear Mom and Dad, 

Your phone call last night left me feeling strangely orphaned, as if you had placed me on some foreign doorstep. I know you thought that Tom and I would get married, and that you can’t understand why I’ve quit my job. Last year you questioned my going on to graduate school; last night you wanted me to return for more schooling in Utah: is it that you’d rather have me in school there than struggling out here?