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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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Ride to Rocky Mountain Retreat
In honor of the Rocky Mountain Retreat XX anniversary, we’re rerunning this Ride to Church which originally ran in June... -
On Men and Heavy Lifting
Being in charge of everything isn’t about power or control, it’s about service. Men should be grateful that women... -
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... -
Grondahl Restored 56
After a partially unintended hiatus on Grondahl cartoons, I’m starting again with Marketing Precedes The Miracle. This week’s cartoon is... -
A Street-Legal Version of the Beatitudes
I am reading The Street-Legal Version of Mormon’s Book by BYU music professor Michael Hicks (and recently did a Mormon... -
Ride to the Little Ethiopian Orthodox Church at the Camp in Norway!
Today’s stunning Ride to Church comes to us from Claudia, a RtC veteran. This Easter Sunday, I had the... -
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... -
54 Psaltery & Lyre: James A. Clark, “Succession”
“I used to stand with him / among the budding clover. / I was King of the Park / and... -
Ritz Crackers (& Other Debacles)
“Raul’s mom brought fruit kabobs.” This revelation comes to me from the back seat. I immediately hate Raul’s... -
Our Nonstandard Work: Nailing It Like Jael
As part of our celebration of Poetry Month, it is my pleasure to remind us of that wonderful poem in... -
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... -
Book Review: Her Side of It
In honor of national poetry month (hooray for April!), we will be featuring a poetry book review once a week.... -
Ride to Mosque in Abu Dhabi
Today’s Ride to Mosque comes to us from Norm, who recently visited Abu Dhabi, the capital and the second largest... -
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... -
53 Psaltery & Lyre: Annaliese Wagner, “Arizona Is Built On Geometry”
“The rectangles and squares of adobe houses / bake under blazing heat. The perpendicular / lines of crucifixes are etched... -
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... -
The Pharisee Within
Today, I gave a talk in church about the last week of Jesus’ life. In the course of my talk... -
Ride to Church in Acoma Pueblo
Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Joanna in New Mexico, who writes: My family recently visited Acoma Pueblo,... -
Excerpts from John Dehlin’s Reactivation Podcast
A few years ago, John Dehlin started the Mormon Stories podcast (http://mormonstories.org/). A couple months ago, he posted a... -
50: A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: What’s Real, Deconstructing John Dehlin, and My Thoughts on Religion, Part III
How we answer that question will largely determine how much control over our beliefs and behaviors we’re be willing to... -
49: A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: What’s Real, Deconstructing John Dehlin, and My Thoughts on Religion, Part II
The first challenge is an exercise in epistemology; The second is an exercise in phenomenology. The first asks what... -
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... -
52 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “There is a certain comfort”
“There is a certain peace / to feel your feet planted / in the place where they will stop /... -
A Screed: Random Drug Testing for High School Students
I learned a painful civics lesson tonight: go to school board meetings. I went to a meeting tonight... -
48: A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: What’s Real, Deconstructing John Dehlin, and My Thoughts on Religion, Part I
I sometimes wonder, if given the opportunity, whether my 40-year-old self could talk any sense into my 19-year-old self. ... -
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... -
Ride to Church in Parker, CO
Today’s snowy Ride to Church comes to us from Tiffany and Michael in Denver, CO: When I visited Denver for... -
Thanks (but no thanks) for the Sabbath School
I’m halfhearted about Sunday School. Okay, less than half. I feel like a boy who’s been held back in, say,... -
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... -
51 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, Two Poems
“She stood short of the ford, / dainty footed, silken kimono / splashed red against the mud and autumn dun.” -
Our Nonstandard Work: Falling in Love with the Old Testament
Ever since I took Steve Walker’s Bible as Literature class at BYU in the early 80s, I have been smitten... -
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... -
Rain or Shine
When my then six year old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes six years ago, I heard someone close... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself
Now it’s time to stop waiting and get to work. -
50 Psaltery & Lyre: Ed Snow, “On Hearing ‘God Willing’ by the Dropkick Murphys for the First Time”
“Twelve Irishmen scream / from gastrointestinal pain, / thrash splintered guitars, / race headlong down dark stairs . . .” -
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... -
Ride to Church in Montreal
Last month, my husband and I visited our son, who’s a PhD student at the University of Montreal. We’ve visited... -
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... -
49 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “The Laying On of Hands”
“Tonight, in this chair / you bow your head / as if being crowned, / the tiara of my fingers... -
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... -
Our Favorite Mormons: Edwin Woolley, Outspoken Bishop of the 13th Ward
When once described as outspoken, Dorothy Parker quipped: “Outspoken … by whom?” When historians suggest that Edwin Woolley was an... -
Grondahl Restored 55
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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... -
48 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “The pivot”
“And would I not feel diminished / a little, were that plant to die? ~ / just as I sense... -
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...