. . . my parents often defaulted to the Church’s guidance on parenting questions, but generally were open to occasional exceptions.
In celebration of Exponent II’s 50th Anniversary, we are featuring three of the most viewed blog posts since the blog started in 2005.
Read by authorI used to wonder why there were so many stories in the children’s Friend magazine about praying over lost objects. Then I had children, and I understood.My kids are constantly losing things. Shoes. Socks. Homework. Treasured stuffed animals. They even manage to lose my things: remote controls, charging cords, kitchen utensils, keys. And kids are also terrible at looking for lost things. My twelve-year-old son stands in the middle of his messy bedroom, casting a cursory glance over the items strewn all over his floor before declaring that his scriptures have disappeared and will never be found. Losing things […]
Evening comes on. / A woman raises her hand to the sky;
Do we only lose things if we realize they are missing? The meanings of all these things are sometimes lost on us.
Except for the fact we didn’t meet at BYU, we were the Mormon cliché. Six children, the first a month
LIGHTWORK I didn’t know until after Grandma died that daisies were her favorite flower. Daisies on her coffin. Daisies in the pallbearers’ boutonnieres. Daisies arranged with Hershey kisses, another of her favorites.Daisies belong to the Asteraceae or sunflower family. What looks like a single flower at the end of a stem is actually manifold individual flowers, sometimes ray flowers, sometimes disc flowers, sometimes both. Asteraceae, I learn, is the largest plant family in the world. There are so many varieties, Grandma — Oxeye, English, Subalpine, Arctic, Blue — which one, in particular, or is the answer: all of them? Grandma’s Daisy FloretsMANY […]
I come from a long line of Mormons whose genealogy is laid out like a tree with roots that fill the earth and branches that scrape the sky. But if my family tree is a sequoia, my husband’s is more like an aspen, where the rhizomes underground cover up a more complicated history than implied by the thin trunk. His father’s side is mostly unknown and I’ve always felt compelled to seek out answers. About a year ago I sat down at the computer, logged into Family Tree, and printed out a few names for my daughters to take with […]
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