Virtual Oases XXXIII

LDS Women in the News and on the Web:

• Idahospud: “How much of our parenting is a reaction to our parents’ example, for good or ill? To what extent do we perpetuate “sins of the mothers” through knee-jerk responses conditioned by the way we were raised?”

• Sally: “After crying for part of the afternoon, I learned a lesson. Even though the advice may have been good, I wasn’t in a place to receive it.”

• Ardis Parshall has a fascinating calling: She writes about strong women in LDS history for her Relief Society Newsletter — but makes sure her subjects are relatively unknown. Here are three of the women she has spotlighted: Catherine Garber Laine, Christina Olsen Rockwell, Geertruida Zippro.

• Article on Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

• Mormon Women’s Quarterly archives now online (thanks, Johnna)

• Neither Mormon nor woman . . . but take time to read Amatai Etzioni’s eulogy for his son