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Recent Posts
- 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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On Parental Hope and Heartbreak
Posted on June 6, 2012 | 18 CommentsI’ve read two things recently that bothered me-perhaps especially as the wife of Mr. Cheap Seats. Exhibit A: An article in the Deseret News titled “When children have chosen another way,” which begins with this: “Perhaps the greatest heartbreak I have seen in my […] -
Mind the Gap
Posted on February 1, 2012 | 20 CommentsI recently re-read Carol Lynn Pearson’s amazing No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones for the second time because a woman in my very-Mormon book club picked it for us to read. For me, it was at least as inspiring […] -
I am thankful for . . .
Posted on November 23, 2011 | 6 CommentsIn the first couple of days of November, I had the brilliant idea to go to the teacher supply store and get a big piece of bulletin board paper so we could make a Gratitude Wall for the month. (This was before I’d read Mel’s […] -
Papa, Watch me Fly!
Posted on May 27, 2011 | 5 CommentsOn Sunday nights, we gather all the piles of clean laundry into the living room and fold it while watching a movie. The kids were not amused by my choice last Sunday: “Yentl” (now stream-able on Netflix!). They don’t like to watch “old” movies and […]