WRITE YOUR STORY prompt: What are some vacations you remember from when you were a kid? My answer: I grew up in Oregon, and our vacations were to visit cousins in California and Washington, with some bonus trips to Disneyland. 🎠 One trip that stands out was during my junior year of high school –Continue reading “WYS: vacations”
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Listen, Learn & Love book TWO!
Richard Ostler has produced a second Listen, Learn & Love book and it went to the publisher today! The first one was Listen, Learn & Love: Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. I was the line editor and proofreader for that manuscript, and it was released in September 2020. The last thing I did on that projectContinue reading “Listen, Learn & Love book TWO!”
Write Your Story
Women have left fewer accessible records, and they don’t fit into the frameworks that male historians have established for understanding history. – Dr. Julie Roy Jeffrey, Goucher College To respond to the dirth of women in the historical record, let’s write our own stories. Don’t leave future generations wondering what WE did, and said, andContinue reading “Write Your Story”
LDSWP: en espanol
I haven’t done any of these interviews – just guided them through the process as the team of writers has produced them – but we’ve had a run of interviews with women who are native Spanish speakers, involving multiple countries. HOORAY! I love to break the Utah bubble and bring in more women who areContinue reading “LDSWP: en espanol”
reading list: depression
Silent Souls Weeping by Jane Clayson Johnson is about dealing with depression in the context of the LDS faith. It’s a mix of memoir of her own experience with it, and interviews she did with other people, so there is a variety of perspective. Some people deal with the long-term effects of chemical imbalance inContinue reading “reading list: depression”
LDSWP: military service
Jen Hardy contacted the Project to offer her story, and I’m glad she did because it was a very different perspective than any we’d shared before. She joined the National Guard as a senior in high school, and when all of her friends were serving missions for the LDS Church, she was on her wayContinue reading “LDSWP: military service”
35 LDS temples I’ve been to
I once had a goal to attend every temple on the West Coast, but the Church keeps building more! I don’t even know where they all are – I have to look at the website map. Now I have a goal to get to just get to fifty. The ones in bold have been, atContinue reading “35 LDS temples I’ve been to”
9 writing books
I’m homeschooling myself in writing and editing. My curriculum so far: The Well Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport Why We Write About Ourselves by Meredith Maran The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of MakingContinue reading “9 writing books”
reading list: Italy
Yay! I finally finished another book! Under the Tuscan Sun is a movie that I despise, so I was really hesitant to read the book. But the two are not similar at all. The movie is about a woman who had her heart broken so to rebuild her life, she goes on vacation to ItalyContinue reading “reading list: Italy”
38 places for travel plans
My last post is some of my favorite places around the US, but really – my FAVORITE place is anywhere these people are, grumpy faces and all: The places I want to go with them, but haven’t yet, are the Freedom Trail in Boston Rocky Ridge, the Laura Ingalls Wilder farm in Mansfield, Missouri AlaskaContinue reading “38 places for travel plans”