When this essay was first published in Segullah, I read it out loud to my husband. “I don’t really want you to redo the kitchen, and I’m ok if you throw out anything pink or purple I ever bring into the house, but otherwise I’m good with a marriage JUST LIKE THIS,” I said.
What kind [...]
My husband and I briefly dated when we were teenagers. At the time, his dad had this awesome sailboat that he would take out onto the Great Salt Lake. Yes, it is a little known secret that once you get past the brine flies, the mud, and the stinking dead fish salty smell, the Great Salt Lake offers [...]
The Red Tent. It’s been delighting and scandalizing (mostly scandalizing) Mormon women’s book clubs for years now. I finally read it last week.
Due to brain lag from overconsumption of fat-laden food this weekend (I just ate the last piece of pumpkin pie for breakfast), I don’t have a review to offer up. But I do have some semi-random [...]
In which Darlene Young, Poetry Editor of Segullah, reveals the value of a poem about a boob job.
(Q) What do Trent Reznor, Sarah Hughes, and Vince Neil have in common?
(A) A cameo in this just-right-for-Monday essay.
(Enjoy. And do tell us all about YOUR memorable mission comps–it’s been a LONG Monday.)
Downtown Sister Brown and the Department of Defense
By Courtney Kendrick
The phone rang awfully early for a summer morning. “Ms. Kendrick?” a man’s [...]
The deadline for Segullah’s poetry contest and the Heather Campbell Personal Essay contest is coming up–December 31, 2008. Really, there’s no big secret: it’s a writing contest, women send us their essays and poetry, we choose winners, we publish them. Straightforward. But here are a few things I didn’t realize before I entered it two [...]
Kerry wowed our staff with this submission to our first annual essay contest. After today’s abortion threads at T&S and BCC, I found this only too fitting. Unfortunately, my head is too full of abortion rhetoric to formulate an insightful discussion question. So I’ll simply ask this: What stands out to you as a reader? [...]
First, read the article.
Once you’re done crying, read the book.
“Enjoy it!” she said to me, thinking her advice was falling on eager ears.
I will, if you will! I thought, remembering her countless complaints, her apathetic husband, delinquent son, and lazy five-year-old.
“Enjoy it” has been offered up to me as a gift of [...]
Some of you might not be familiar with Segullah: Writings by Latter-day Saint Women. By way of introduction, I’m going to cheat by recycling my Times & Seasons post from last summer. Here’s a teaser:
Two years ago when Segullah made its debut I fielded lots of questions. The most frequent was this: Why a new journal?
My answer: [...]
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