Model Mormon Women Don’t All Look Alike

President Benson told us that we should be Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon. Unfortunately, my stake Relief Society president took prophetic counsel very seriously. President Susan Easton Black called all the ward Relief Society presidents together. They...

Arguments with God

When I met my husband-to-be, he had some big-time stake calling. The kind that requires temple trips with the stake presidency. The kind that causes him to miss a date with me to BYU's Preference dance. The kind that made girls think he was a good Mormon catch. I...

Laie Hawaii Temple Cafeteria

55-600 Naniloa LoopLaie, HI 96762808-293-2427Laie Hawaii Temple Taste 4 starsValue 4 starsService 4 stars Price range:Items up to about $4.00 Distance from temple:Laie Temple: 0.0 miles After trying to get the sand out of our hair, Sam and I rented some movies for the...

Accidental Legacy

I read the obituaries from my hometown newspaper everyday now. It's not that I love dwelling on morbidity, it's that as I get older, so do the people I know. Almost every week I see someone I knew, usually friends of my parents or the parents of a friend. It's sad to...

The Oprah Trap

Although she never said it out loud, I could tell my mother did not approve of soap operas. I suppose she didn't want to denigrate most of the other moms I knew who watched them, you know, while ironing and doing laundry…really slowly. Still, there was this scrunchy...