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To Infinity … or not »

Buzz Lightyear and I started very much the same. We rocketed into this world convinced that we were fantastic beings with a vital mission to accomplish. Star Command had sent us specially because we were best equipped to deal with the evil threatening the galaxy. We were chosen.
Living the life of a space ranger was [...]

Complaint of the Prodigal’s Brother »

Last Sunday my two twin brothers gave their farewell speeches at sacrament meeting. The first brother to speak (I couldn’t tell them apart as I was sitting at the back of the gym) gave 21-minute talk (yes, I timed it). It wasn’t an amazing talk (he only spent an hour and a half preparing it [...]

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Airbrushed Ancestors »

The theme for today’s sacrament meeting was family history. It was better than I had expected. Instead of a run of guilt trips describing our poor ancestors languishing in spiritual prison while we fritter our time away doing hometeaching and member missionary work, going to the temple, laying away our food storage, spending quality time [...]

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Mormon Stories: An Unabashed Love Letter »

Am I just slow on the uptake here? I went to Mormon Stories today and found to my surprise, that it had been retired.
This is a great loss in my opinion. I really don’t blame John for setting down the torch. I tried to do a podcast once and only made it through four of [...]

From Adam’s Rib to Male Lib »

Recently on the email list for the Association for Mormon Letters the following was posted in response to some queries about if males could contribute poetry to Segulla, an online magazine of Mormon women’s writings.
“We’ve established a prose column for male contributors. […] This is the sole forum available for men at Segullah. We will [...]

Psychosocial Mormontorium »

A few years ago I embarked on a year’s worth of rage over an incident that would seem trivial to most people,
My sister went to London for six weeks. When she came home she was full of plays and books and people and places that she had seen, and, of course, she wanted to [...]

Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer »

Publishers Weekly: The new Sugar Beet book nationally praised.