by Alison Moore Smith | Jul 11, 2015 | for Spirit
It’s About Time Having carefully waited a week beyond his passing—and with the funeral safely adjourned—I will weigh on a tiny speck in the life and death of Boyd K. Packer. He was called to the Quorum of the 12 when I was only five years old, so I...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 24, 2015 | for Money
This week I was discussing blog comment systems with a developer. Over the years I’ve looked at various blog commenting systems. None provided enough of my desired features to warrant a switch from native WordPress. I’m open to being persuaded but,...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 16, 2015 | for Body, for Mind, for Spirit
For as long as I can remember, I have been a heterosexual, cis-gendered, any-ethnicity-with-melanin female with bold opinions about transgenderism trapped in the body of a heterosexual , cis-gendered, pasty white female who cannot bring herself to express her bold...
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...
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...
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...
by Guest Author | Apr 20, 2015 | Yea Big
by Sara Burlingame The clerk at Kohl’s just cheerfully asked me if I was pregnant. Rather than honk his impertinent nose I just said “no” very carefully and slowly. My “no” had five syllables. So he followed up with, “Oh, did you...
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...
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...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 14, 2015 | for Good, for Money
#LeadOnLeave Is Sooooo Darn Awesome! Recently I’ve seen flurry of sharing of a Valerie Jarrett promoted piece of foolishness. Propagandize government enforced perks and progressives clamor to get on board. Publicize perks for doing nothing—with eeeeeevilllll...
