Next week our family will be headed to my family reunion–it’s a fairly small one with just my siblings, their families, and my mother. This reunion will also by my youngest sister’s wedding celebration (the last sibling to marry), we will also be joined by various extended family members for portions of the week.
My [...]
By Maria
Of the six children born into my family, two are disabled. The oldest child in the family, my brother T, has ADD, motor skill impairment, and various other moderate to severe learning and physical disabilities. T served a full-time mission, married in the temple, attends college (for the past 11 years), and holds down [...]
Living far away from my family isn’t as bad anymore. It used to tear me apart inside each time I’d hear of this sibling’s latest concert and that niece’s recent cuteness, the dinner everyone had together for someone’s birthday, or the trip to Island Park for a weekend at the cabin. It still hurts, but [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 13 so far )(Christi contributed this great prose poem to Postcard Poems)
My mother loves whole baked chicken, the kind you get already cooked from the grocery store. It’s good, that first night. After that you have to pick it over, lifting the greasy wings, sawing off the meat, turning it over onto its brittle ribs to scrape [...]
Rose-Colored Glasses
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Volume 13, Number 2 (1987)
There couldn’t have been a more model Mormon family than ours. I was serving as the stake Relief Society president; my husband was a former bishop; e had five children, the oldest of whom had just left on a mission. Not only did we look good on paper, [...]
I was called into the Young Women’s presidency in my ward a little over five years ago. A week after I got that calling, two of my girls’ mother/aunt died (don’t worry, the explanation for this is in paragraph 3). I met them six days before she died. The next time I saw them was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 11 so far )One of the most beautiful sights I’ve seen:
Last night E (my daughter) spread her homework around on the living room floor. She sprawled her own body out in the middle of textbooks, papers, pencils/pens, erasers, etc. As she tapped her toes together while doing math problems, well, it rivaled the most beautiful painting on the [...]
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