The Archives

• the world, united states

  Belonging

  11.10.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  As we walked into church on Sunday, I looked around at my family. The hallways were crowded and my arms were full of snacks for the nursery, bags of diapers and toys, binders and scriptures. I thought Thank goodness no one needs to be carried anymore, or to have their hand held. I’ve been appreciating [...]

• summer

  Have we met before?

  09.06.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  When I was a little girl, I wanted to marry a good Mormon boy from a large Mormon family, and in the summers, we would flit from one large family reunion to another. Instead I got Dick, who, after surviving my dad’s family’s reunion, wanted to know whether family reunions were a common thing in [...]