“Retreat: Reflect, Reinvent, Reunite, Renew”
For me, the retreat succeeds because of principles laid out during Friday night introductions, as conceived by Carrel Sheldon.
“Swerve”
The women I know cannot be contained.
“Can I Get a Witness?”
I have always known friends were key to my happiness. Give me a good friend and I can weather almost anything.
“Family Constellations: Searching for Jean”
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 […]
“Dear Exponent Reader”
Dear Exponent Reader,Your editor-in-chief recently asked me to write you about the ins and outs of writing advocacy letters and I am more than happy to oblige. I’ve become a bit of a missionary over the last few years since my job has me drafting one to three op-eds a month. And this summer I started to help with MWEG’s (Mormon Women for Ethical Government) Op Ed Lab, guiding writers through the process of crafting letters to the editor (LTE) and op-eds on political topics. Strictly speaking, op-eds are not letters, but the more I write, the more I think of […]
