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January 2014

January 25, 2014

A Quiz for my Virtual Students

Quiz on King Follett and Pre-existence literature NAME:______________________________ 1: In the Gnostic poem “Hymn of...

January 16, 2014

I Speak to Dead People

Part III of Caves, Cloisters and Temples Part I is here. Part II is here....

January 15, 2014

A Gift for my Readers

I recorded this story, one I made up and told to my son on a...

January 13, 2014

Tamu Thomas-Smith: Speaker for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

She was raised by her grandmother, Susie Mae Young Thomas, who was a civil rights...

January 10, 2014

Blind Man Given Sight

In 1979, I was living with my first husband in Royal Oak, Michigan. I was...

January 09, 2014

Pre-existence

In LDS literature, we are talking about the Mormon concept of the pre-existence, and then...

January 06, 2014

I Am Jane–music script

This is my invitation to everyone in Utah Valley to help us produce I am...

January 02, 2014

Mormon Lit Syllabus

Requirements •Regular quizzes on the readings (If you are absent the day a quiz is...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

Literature of the Latter-day Saints

For those who would like to join the Mormon Lit class (you will get spiritual...

December 28, 2013

Messiah in Patsun, Guatemala

My father, a linguist, specialized in Mayan dialects. That meant that while growing up in...

December 20, 2013

Longfellow and Lisa: Contemplations on “I Heard the Bells”

This is by my sister, Lisa Blair Sabey, contemplating that horrifying day at Arapahoe High...

December 19, 2013

Before Jane James–another African American Mormon Found

I read historians' work, and sometimes I go through microfilm to find answers to my...

December 16, 2013

Jane Elizabeth Manning James

We draped a sheet across a metal trellis and called it a covered wagon. We...

December 12, 2013

The Story I told Him, Part 4

He watched the sun sink. The sky was growing dark. He hiked higher, higher, higher....

December 08, 2013

Dayenu! (It would have been enough!)

(During some Passover celebrations, Jews drop bits of wine on a napkin, citing each plague...

December 07, 2013

Darius Gray: Atlas with the Flu

Elsie Gray was close to miscarrying her baby, and had already had several miscarriages. She...

December 05, 2013

The Story I told Him (part 3)

David of Nebula Part 3 of 4 Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here....

December 03, 2013

My brother–in an Otavalo cemetery

This beautiful essay is by my brother, Dell Blair. Dell and I love Central and...

December 03, 2013

The Story I Told Him, Part 2

David of Nebula Part 1 (of four parts) is here. An audio CD of the...

December 01, 2013

The Story I Told Him

Several years ago, I was sitting on a cabin porch with my son. We watched...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

Mormon Women Bear

I will be making calendars of various bear Mormon women I am doing this as...

November 21, 2013

How Could We Have Forgotten Our Mother?

Mom reading The God Who Weeps to Dad I talk a lot about my dad...

November 18, 2013

Looking Back Down the Years

One assignment I give my students is to write a letter. My objective is for...

November 14, 2013

A beautiful blog post

This is by my friend Kerri Lynn Harris Bigler. I resonate with her insights on...

November 12, 2013

CAVES, CLOISTERS, AND TEMPLES (Part 2)

(Part I of this series is here.) Cloisters When my friend Robinlee and I visited...

November 01, 2013

Making Room for Difficult Mormons and their Friends

I began my Halloween by reading the much talked about article in Meridian Magazine--a terribly...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

The Prodigal (from a mother’s perspective)

A certain woman had a son. They were not wealthy, but she had given him...

October 26, 2013

Death of the Organist

I once learned how to play several stanzas of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody. I played them...

October 24, 2013

My Fantasy Class

Black History through Film and Fiction Yes! I will propose it. Add or critique. I'm...

October 24, 2013

That “Third” Conversation? Never, No Never!

Fourth grade can be terrible. Not only do you get introduced to hard math, but...