Out in Left Field (A True Story)
April 12, 2018With apprehension I agreed to allow the new girl at Manetamers to cut my hair. Really I had no choice. My hairdresser had run off to Texas with one of the sales reps in the…
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Making Sense of Suffering
April 12, 2018My tale begins in 1983—the year I turned thirty years old. It was definitely prime time. I had (and still do have) an incredibly fulfilling marriage with my husband, Lee. Our poverty-stricken years in graduate…
Hazardous Duty, Combat Pay: Working in the Primary | Jesus Wants Me for a …
April 12, 2018We live in a ward on the fringes of Salt Lake City’s central city neighborhood. Demo graphically, the ward contains a core of people who began young married life in their homes and are now…
Hazardous Duty, Combat Pay: Working in the Primary | Busier Than Thou: The Primary
April 12, 2018My call to serve as Primary president eight years ago came at a time in my life when I was especially—maybe even uniquely—unsuited for the job. I was thirty-six, married only four years. I was…
Hazardous Duty, Combat Pay: Working in the Primary | Of Primary Concern
April 12, 2018The first church I remember attending as a child wasn’t a church at all—it was the Odd Fellows Building in the heart of rundown, downtown Wilmington, Delaware. It was a spooky (at least to me)…
My Mormon Grandmother
April 12, 2018“Another girl.”
Unheralded birth
Beginning nothing.
The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives
April 12, 2018Dialogue 25.2 (Fall 1992): 75–96
The personal essay, unlike personal journals, letters, and oral histories, is not an artless form. It transforms the raw material of personal experience in the double crucible of carefully chosen language and the light of mature retrospection.
Sexual Hegemony and Mormon Women: Seeing Ourselves in the Bambara Mirror
April 12, 2018At first glance, people from a middle-class, educated, medically, technically, and industrially sophisticated country may be tempted to see the culture of a developing country as not merely different but as a polar opposite. We…
Thoughts on Mormonism in Latin America
April 12, 2018Over the last quarter century, the Church has experienced tremendous growth in Latin America and elsewhere in the so-called Third World, a relatively sudden surge that has received little scholarly attention (Grover n.d.). In the…
Coney Island Hymn: Shore
April 12, 2018They clap their hands together
and shout out
and sing the same song