Segullah's Blog, page 37

When your husband gets a shout out from Kim Kardashian

So, I guess Kim Kardashian is going to law school. Or, doing a law school internship thingie that will allow her to take the bar. I guess. Because she is, like, passionate about criminal justice reform. Because at this point in her life spending money on shopping sprees just doesn’t fulfill her like it used...

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One True Thing

I sat in the living room with the window open trying to cool off after Sunday dinner. Crickets competed with the TV, providing background noise for other attentions. I half listened to a report on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the lunar landing– one of many programs that had dotted the media for...

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Honour Thy Launching Children

My son’s return ticket was booked. He was coming home from his mission soon, so he called to confirm a few details. When I finished, he asked me, “How are you doing?” Over the last few weeks, I had been crying and yelling a lot. I went on to describe how his parents and sibling...

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We Are Never, Ever, Ever Gonna Get a Pet (er)

I find myself drawn to pictures of puppies lately. My friends get puppies and post pictures of them on social media. I show the pictures to my husband and tell him that we also need a dog, something small and furry and cute. I do this mostly to tease him, because he is firmly in...

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Welcome to My Home

Yesterday I wasn’t feeling well and spent most of the day binge-watching the latest season of Queer Eye on Netflix. The show always gets me thinking about my life and whether it is working for me, and while I would never want to be on television, the idea of having someone come and make-over my...

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FSY Decentralizes EFY, But Will High-Energy Faith Overwhelm Some?

When my children were between 14 and 18 years old, we sat down a few times and explored the possibility of sending them to a BYU sponsored Especially for Youth conference. Neither of my children attended for a variety of reasons (costs, logistics, apprehension about going without a close friend, seeing that the programming would...

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Loose Ends

When my beautiful gay son told me he was on his way home from a meeting with LDS higher ups – stake president, area rep, other priesthood leaders, and he wanted to tell me about it, I felt a tug on my heart. Ah, he had been home. They had invited him and others to...

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Don’t Call Me Crazy; Support Me and Accept My Gifts

  Over twenty years ago, I attended church in the DC Metro area. There was an older woman who didn’t quite fit in with the young professionals. It was the 1980s, and “yuppies” were the largest demographic of that ward. This sister also didn’t resemble the established older couples either.  Most mature people who attended...

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Grace Brought Me Home

How do you define the word home? It’s deceptively tricky, because we each originate from different types of homes, and we each live with personal challenges as varied and diverse as the population of the world. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in Anna...

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Glass Grapes & Grieving

As a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in my college years in New England, I learned the craft of creating apple dolls just like the kind sold in the gift shop at Sturbridge Village, the marvelous historical living museum an hour away. Later on I learned how to make everything...

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