by Alison Moore Smith | May 9, 2015 | for Mind
A first grade class at Ridgecrest Elementary in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, (and scads of other schools around the country, too, if the 1,994 downloads are any indication) made a Mother's Day “gift” to take home. Was it a sentimental card? A loving poem?...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 7, 2015 | for Body, for Spirit
Maybe I'm weird, but never in my 50 years of Mormondom have I hung my head and cried: Oh, if only I could have wine with dinner, my entire life would be complete! Here are some other things I've never said: My life is empty without getting sloppy drunk at least three...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 2, 2015 | for Good
Sit Down and Shut Up I'm a pasty white, college educated, middle class, conservative American. Right up at the top I acknowledge those facts disqualify me from having an opinion about anything. I am, however, a woman and someone who has experienced hair prejudice. In...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 18, 2015 | for Spirit, Women at Church
It's Not About That Bass This isn't the post I intended to write this weekend. But something happened that pushed it forward. The discussion on my recent post Mother: Where Art Thou? took an interesting—but familiar—turn. I intended the post to be mostly a personal...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 17, 2015 | for Spirit
Missing in Theme Proving again our oddity, Mormons proudly proclaim an acknowledged—but sparse—doctrine of Heavenly Mother. While the thought of a Heavenly Father without a corollary Heavenly Mother “makes reasons stare,” we spend most of our...
