by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 30, 2007 | for Love, for Spirit
I really don't want to do this. It's just not that interesting to me. And I'm so late to the party that the boat embarked, sailed the world, returned victorious, and docked at harbor…all while I was trying to decide what to pack. Still, as the uproar continues, I'll...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 18, 2007 | for Spirit
Autumn of 1999 was typically humid. We still had a month or so before hurricane season ended and the weather became bearable. Sacrament Meeting in the Boca Raton Ward found me in the foyer serving my shift in the Smith Family Toddler Reverence Training Rotation. I was...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 5, 2007 | for Good
Running in about fifth place, right after “Are you the only wife?” “So, how many kids do you have?” “Aren't you the ones who can't drink soda?” and “How come Mormons can't dance?” the most common question I have received...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 30, 2007 | for Good
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...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 15, 2007 | for Good
As I turned the corner at the top of the hill, I saw it, flapping in the breeze like a flag of surrender from my mailbox: the tall, white, kitchen garbage bag symbolic of all culminating scout projects. I sighed. Again. Untangling the drawstring from my red mailbox...
