Are We Not All Teenagers?

Right now in my ward I get to work with the Young Women. I've grown to love it, though I didn't at first. What I dreaded the most was all the drama. I think the hardest part of being a teen is figuring out who you are, and then how that relates to the people around...

What to Say When She’s Not Expecting

Over the past few weeks I've had several friends approach me and ask what they can do or say for a woman who has suffered a miscarriage. This put the idea into my head that perhaps there are many people out there who do not know what to say to a woman in this...

How Do We Love Another Woman’s Child?

When I became pregnant with my first child a girl I couldn't understand how having a baby would be markedly different from babysitting. And I wasn't too thrilled with the whole idea. Then she was born and I found that I would give my life for this precious baby in a...

Dear Joanne

The past few days, discussions of bullying have brought back many memories that I thought I had forgotten. One such memory was a letter I wrote over five years ago to a woman named Joanne Spotten. More accurately, I wrote it to the 12-year-old girl she once was. That...