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 1, 2008 | Book Club, for Love
All Moms Go to Heaven By Dean Hughes In All Moms Go to Heaven, well-known LDS writer Dean Hughes describes the summer he spent taking care of the kids while his wife, Kathy, worked on her master's degree. After a few weeks of drying tears (sometimes his own), changing...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 1, 2008 | Book Club, for Good
A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney By Hugh Hewitt According to author and radio personality Hewitt, Mitt Romney—billionaire venture capitalist, consummate family man, gifted and media-savvy politician—would be...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 1, 2008 | Book Club, for Mind, for Spirit
Choose anything by or about President Gordon B. Hinckley. Let's have a good cry together. Here are a few possibilities: Go Forward With Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 1, 2008 | Book Club, for Mind
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life By Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander The lure of this book's promise starts with the assumption in its title. Possibility—that big, all-encompassing, wide-open-door concept—is an art? Well, who...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 1, 2007 | Book Club, for Spirit
Mary, Martha, and Me: Seeking for the One Needful Thing By Camille Fronk Olson When someone says, “She is a Martha-type,” we know just what that means: a woman who is practical, competent, down-to-earth. We understand that Marthas are certainly useful and...
