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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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Columns Archive
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30something
No week-long love fest of Tina Fey is complete without a discussion (however incomplete) of her hit-ish show, 30 Rock.... -
You Can Recognize Them by Their Hand-Carved Daggers…
I love memoirs. And I love Tina Fey. So I was just salivating as my friends and co-bloggers... -
O me, of little Feyth
I’m drowning right now. I just finished up the hardest, most wholly unsatisfying and frustrating year of my career. Sure,... -
All Girls Must Be Everything
Now if you’re not “hot,” you are expected to work on it until you are. -
You’ve Gotta Have Feyth
It started last month. We pre-ordered it on Amazon, ventured into the world of audio books so that we could... -
Tina’s Rules for Reducing Belly Fat
Welcome to our All Tina, All the Time week here at Doves & Serpents. For an explanation of why we’re... -
A System
In the 2000 Christopher Nolan film Memento, the central character (Leonard) has a big problem with his memory. After an... -
Diary of a Wimpy Mom
A promise is a promise, or so my kids said, even if I really didn’t want to take them to... -
Angels with Power Tools
When you hear the words “Compassionate Service” what comes to mind? This is like one of those word association... -
Parental Involvement: The Gold Standard
We hold these truths to be self-evident-that all good parents are involved in their children’s education. They bring food (homemade... -
SexRead
Since I pretty much like tackling any topic through reading, it should be no surprise that I like reading about... -
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
As we approached the wide junction of Avinguda Diagonal and the street on which our hotel was located, I saw... -
Ride to Church in Avon & Paradise, Utah
Come enjoy Carole’s ride to church in Cache Valley, Utah. Carole lives in Avon and the church building is... -
Going there
Virya is a Sanskrit word that is most often used in spiritual circles to refer to the energetic... -
What Dreams May Come
There are two ways into the world of dreams. The first is to walk in consciously, the second is to... -
The Saviors of Soul Revisited
In 1997, some twenty years after his notoriously iconoclastic conversion to Christianity, when asked what he then believed, Bob... -
Park it!
Children can only write so many letters to full-time missionaries. Or out-of-state family members. They can only color so many... -
BUTT-erfly T-shirts for Mother’s Day
My first child was born on January 5. The months between her birth and Mother’s Day were, um, let’s just... -
In the Gut
“It’s not about masculine or feminine. It’s about power, and passion, and weirdness” -
“We Did Not Choose This Fight”
“We did not choose this fight” is uttered from the lips of our leaders as we discuss the war on... -
World Market
When I need chocolate, and nothing but an enormous brick of Cadbury Dairy Milk or a handful of a Kinder... -
Walk to Church in New Orleans
In early April, I had to (got to?) to a conference in New Orleans for work. So on Sunday morning,... -
Marshmallows, Obedience and You
In the famous Stanford Marshmallow Experiment (1972), Professor Walter Mischel gave four year-old children a marshmallow, and instructed them that... -
Twelfth Lunch
November 11th, 2010 I gave away the last lunch (somehow, the story of the eleventh lunch was never recorded and... -
The Joys of Parenthood
Why do we have such a hard time admitting to the realities of parenthood? This morning a dear friend of... -
Get Lost
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what we mean when we talk about “losing ourselves in a good book.”... -
Pausing for a Moment of Silence
When my children had outgrown their need for a nap, but I had not yet outgrown my need to have... -
Ren’s (former) Ride to the Winter Quarters, Nebraska Temple
Today’s Ride to Church post comes from Ren (who now lives in Minnesota): I used to live in Omaha, Nebraska... -
Earn This
By Dan A long favorite movie scene of mine comes near the close of “Saving Private Ryan.” Capt. John Miller,... -
The Good Book
I love getting books in the mail. No seriously: I feel like no one could possibly understand how much I... -
A Spoonful of Sugar
Or how the ‘Making of Mary Poppins’ documentary included on the 25th Anniversary DVD restored my hope and sweetened my... -
Emergency: Lunches 9 and 10
On a drizzly day last fall, at the familiar corner near the Carter Center where I gave away the very... -
Book Worm Love
The books people love and the way they talk about them can be quite revealing about the way they view... -
Worshipping WITH the World
Last Sunday I was in New Orleans for a conference. As much as I love the volunteer work I do... -
Surely We Were Blessed
We were a wreck. The basses and tenors were supposed to be singing a unison line-yet I kept hearing a... -
Paula’s Prius Ride to Church
Today’s Ride to Church hails from Paula in Encinitas, California. ; The LDS Chapel on Lake Street in Encinitas, CA... -
“Come to Zion”
‘Zion’ has become a dirty word in our world: now it is shorthand for the displacement of native peoples from... -
Before Sunset
For Jesse and Céline these questions are embodied in a single night and in each other. But the question of... -
Find Your Tribe
Over a decade ago I read this article in Mothering Magazine about a woman who is far from family and... -
The Grass is Always Greener
I just got back from a fancy schmantzy conference for educational researchers in New Orleans. I submit proposals every year... -
Just Too Good to be True
Context can be everything in art. Hearing those songs again, in a fresh context, I was actually listening to them... -
Cafeteria Style
In last week’s LDS General Conference session. Elder Nelson, a prominent priesthood leader, said,“ Teach of faith to keep all... -
Sterling’s Taiwanese Ride to Church
Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Sterling Swallow–all the way from Taiwan. Sterling writes: Taoyuan, Taiwan is not... -
Time’s Fractal Line
‘I wish I had more time in my life.’ A friend wrote this on his Facebook wall yesterday. It’s a... -
Before Sunrise
An American man meets a French woman on a train in Europe. They connect and get off together in Vienna... -
An Unlikely Prayer of Thanksgiving
Last summer, Brent and Stuart went to get a haircut. While there, the stylist discovered that Stuart had lice (gasp!).... -
Bicycle Playlist
“Bicycles move with the flow of the earth …” -
Cleared for Take Off
“Does anyone smell smoke?” Not exactly the words you want to hear at 36,000 feet in the air halfway through... -
James’ Bike Ride to Church in Suffolk and Essex
Come see James’ bike ride to his favourite church just outside Suffolk, England, where James grew up and now works... -
Reach Out and Touch Someone
He blazed up the wide middle aisle of our repurposed Presbyterian sanctuary, passing the stained glass depictions of Biblical scenes...