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- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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Guest Posts Archive
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My Take On the New Church DNA Page
After hundreds of thousands of archeological digs in the Americas, from the Hudson Bay to Patagonia, from Bristol Bay to... -
Finding My Path to Motherhood
–by Ginger C. Hanson, PhD As a genXer, growing up in an active LDS family, I struggled with the seemingly... -
Planning for Now, Not a Maybe
Naomi Watkins, a former middle school English teacher, earned a B.A. in English education from Brigham Young University, a M.Ed.... -
LDS Men, Please Consider This
“The end goal is the diffusion of any and all anger, frustration, judgement, or ill will toward the women who... -
Not the Same Mormons
“When I was a kid I loved to read fiction and non-fiction books about the Old West. There was always... -
This Must Stop: A Call to End Sexually Invasive Interviews Between Priesthood Leaders and Minors in the LDS Church
TRIGGER WARNING: sexual and spiritual abuse When I was 13-years-old, I was violated in a very personal way. A middle-aged... -
Flooding the Book of Mormon with the Book of Mormon
In October of 1988, President Ezra Taft Benson stated: “I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature,... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Have to Be Me
In the next few weeks, I will turn 40. I know it is very cliché to have a mid-life crisis... -
Parenthood Juggle: What Gives?
For better or worse, I think I’ve become a legend in my department amongst graduate students. I’m in my... -
Parenthood Juggle: Only by Working Together
In order to tell my story properly I have to jump quite few years back before I was even born.... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Wouldn’t Change Any of It
I met my husband at law school. We got engaged the summer before my final year but at my husband’s... -
Parenthood Juggle: It’s Enough for Me
At the party store yesterday, my son was choosing decorations for his fifth birthday bash, coming in just a few... -
Parenthood Juggle: We Co-Get-It-Done
When I was a young mother, a series of events occurred that changed my life. In 1995, a woman the... -
Ritz Crackers (& Other Debacles)
“Raul’s mom brought fruit kabobs.” This revelation comes to me from the back seat. I immediately hate Raul’s... -
Stages and Flexibility: My Communications Career Juggle
Before becoming a mom, I spent three years in magazine editing and high-tech public relations. The birth and adoption of... -
Parenthood Juggle: Wanting it All
I was intent on having career (not just job) options with my humanities degree, no matter what educational step I... -
Redeeming Asherah
By Michelle Wiener (aka, Michelle Mormon) Today at work, the question of God’s gender came up, and I replied that... -
Parenthood Juggle: “You Don’t Need to Go To College”
Seek an education, but FIRST seek to get married and have children. Of course there was also the underlying... -
Parenthood Juggle: Depression and Poetry
“I started writing poetry before I had kids and was struggling with infertility. [ . . . ] Poetry became... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Never Had to Ask For Permission
My dad got teary with pride every time; my mom sported her corsage in the colors of whatever institution I... -
I am the Law, and the Law is not Mocked
Last night I saw Les Miserables. Hugo’s work has endured because ideas and principles pulled from the story still apply... -
Parenthood Juggle: How I Became a (Mormon) Female Executive
When I was nine years old, I decided that the most important things to me were figuring out how the... -
Parenthood Juggle: Piano Lessons are Worth It
I didn’t yearn for a career. Sometimes it feels like-looking back-that I just fell into it. I was... -
Parenthood Juggle: Only One Body
If I’m honest, I was more ecstatically happy the day I found out I was accepted to school than the... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself
Now it’s time to stop waiting and get to work. -
Parenthood juggle: A view from 50 years out…
My mother and I started school in 1965. I went off to 1st grade at our little town’s three room... -
Parenthood Juggle: It Takes a Village. . .
Perhaps it was my cheerless state of mind that caused the tone of quiet desperation in The Feminine Mystique to... -
Parenthood Juggle: Of Dreams and Reality
When I was eighteen, I awoke from my beautiful dream with a harsh reality. I was going to be... -
Parenthood Juggle: Full-time mom/part-time rocket scientist?
Only since September, when I participated in measuring the noise from a solid rocket motor, have I been able to... -
Parenthood Juggle: Every Step Felt Necessary and Right
At the end of my senior year of college, I got married. My husband and I talked extensively about... -
Parenthood Juggle: Doing What I Was Meant to Do
When I was just a young girl, I remember my parents getting ready to go to the church to make... -
Parenthood Juggle: Twists and Turns
As I was graduating from BYU with my MBA I got a piece of advice from the assistant dean, herself... -
Parenthood Juggle: “One Step Enough for Me”
The funny thing about planning the course of your life is that as much as you think you know what... -
Parenthood Juggle: Because my Career Matters to Me
I had big plans as a young girl. I was going to help cure cancer. Or become a chemist. Or... -
Parenthood Juggle: Rice and Beans
I always knew that I would be a work-outside-the-home mom. The working part came first, as I trekked through... -
Parenthood Juggle: Academic Freedom
During these first few years of adjuncting and mothering, my favorite time of day was the afternoon nap. Both of... -
Parenthood Juggle: “The Smart Girl”
In my family, we were taught that education was the most important thing to pursue. My parents did not complete... -
Nearly True: A Thong Discovered in the Laundry
[This is a guest post from the man known to us as “Smooth Operator”] Recently I came across a Sweetheart... -
Parenthood Juggle: Working-Mostly-at-Home-Mostly-for-Free Mom
After BYU graduation, I worked full-time, putting my husband through his last few months of classes and his internship, right... -
Parenthood Juggle: Musings on Gender Roles in Mormonism
So if you’re a stay at home dad, awesome. I salute you as a brother. If you’re a... -
Parenthood Juggle: Picking Up Where the Other One Leaves Off
We make this work for us, and appreciate that it is a balancing act. Since we did it this way,... -
Parenthood Juggle: F**k
Truth is, I don’t know. The past is set and I can’t change it. All I can do is look... -
Parenthood Juggle: On Path Renovations
I’ve also realized that while my life hasn’t followed the path I thought it would, or any of the path... -
Parenthood Juggle: Figuring It Out As You Go Along
How have we taken care of our little ones? The first year of my son’s life was a complicated,... -
Parenthood Juggle: To Put Off School or To Not Put Off School
I really wish that someone had told me that marriage does not always change your life plans, but having children... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Wanted to be a Mother, so I Needed a Good Job
There are distinct benefits to the academic path I chose. Being in constant need of money is the way of... -
Parenthood Juggle: A Crooked and Twisting Path
And this is where I am now. I work part-time in my son’s school and next year our youngest will... -
Finding Common Variables in Parallel Struggles for Change
I envision a Church that publicly recognizes that, like its own history, healthy gender roles and healthy sexuality are also... -
Parenthood Juggle: Reflections of a Career-Oriented Mormon Mommy
My career aspirations, even my choice of career, have been with me from the beginning, an integral part of me,... -
Parenthood Juggle: This American Life
Should we all move to Sweden? I hope that we won’t need to. My hope is that America...