I need to give praise when it does. Considering I live where the desert meets the sea, learning more about our water supply was important to me. Tagged books should have endings.

Diplomatic and honest science communication helps us recognize and throw out scientific dross. I teach science writing in the MA Science Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University; I also teach astronomy. At the Universidad Americana de Managua. Before this I was a science editor.

Yearning for God, Trying to Love My Neighbor, Making Theatre and Beauty, Building a Life. Monday, April 2, 2018. The Glory of God is Intelligence. Our family was asked to speak today on the Plan of Salvation. A very broad topic, considering it encompasses the entirety of premortal, mortal, and postmortal existence! So each of us have narrowed it down in our own way.

History, doctrine, culture, books. A short essay published in 2008. No author identified, of course. The second installment in an ongoing series. Or a less-active Mormon who .

We are a group devoted to discovering, promoting and connecting Mormon women writers, loosely defined. Orthodoxy is not our goal; diversity is. Mormonism is a broad umbrella including not just the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but the Community of Christ, as well as other smaller denominations. We want to ask but not settle the question of what it means to be a Mormon woman writer. Thursday, March 25, 2010.

Living Between the Mormon Worlds. Thursday, September 23, 2010. My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage! While doing some research I came across the Practical Magic. Which I so wanted to comment on and even participate in! Which traces historical attitudes toward i.

I read, write, and buy a lot of books. Saturday, July 20, 2013. For a few blissful days, the whole family was together. Nina and Levi flew in from San Francisco, Syd and Scott drove from Oregon, and over the 4th, we were all in one spot for a few wonderful hours- all the siblings, spouses, the grandkids- and it was sweet. Dad had bought a slip-n-slide and the kids played on it for 3 hours straight without fighting once. Thursday, March 21, 2013. Friday, January 11, 2013.

Reflections on faith, society, life and the world. Thursday, April 5, 2018. Being white in a colorful world. I was just about 19 years old, a freshman in college, on the night Rev. Marinette when I was growing up was a city of about 14,000 nestled on the shore of the Menominee River that formed the border with Michigan.

The piece is Fern Hill, written by John Corigliano from the poem by Dylan Thomas. I sang the mezzo solo, and was very very happy to be able to do it. And playing, lovely and watery.