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March 16, 2026 in Deseret Magazine In Search of Small Silences: Surviving parenthood as an introvert I never intended to hide behind a tree. It was Monday, and my family of four awoke late. My [...]

Love Lost: America’s relationship with dating? It’s complicated February, 2025 in Deseret Magazine In my 20s, I met several long-term boyfriends at work and through get-togethers hosted by [...]

HuffPost: When is Optimism Just Another Form of Toxic Positivity? I Was Facing Terrifying News From My Doctor. Then My Friend Texted 2 Words That Made Me Rethink Everything. “Love you forever,” I [...]

The Undercover Agent Who Wasn’t: Ray Epps believed the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen. Then he became the conspiracy theorists’ biggest target. Read the story in the [...]

The Delicate Art of Doing Nothing: Boredom is good for us. We just have to learn to let it be. Click here to read this story in the June, 2024 issue of Deseret Magazine. On the morning of my [...]

Deseret Magazine: An Ode to 4 a.m.: First tracks and the glow of sunrise The alarm cuts the cold, dark air. It’s 4:30 a.m. As I snatch the phone from the bedside table and turn off the noise, I [...]

Israel-Hamas War: A Mother’s Grief A decade ago, I attended a summer camp unlike any other. Called Tomorrow’s Women, the organization had flown more than 20 young women from Gaza, Israel [...]

Business Insider: Overcoming the Stress of a Post-Partum Pandemic Layoff 2020 I stared into my laptop, struggling to hear my manager on Zoom while my 5-year-old son sang loudly next to me. After [...]

Business Insider: Mandatory On-Site Work is Especially Damaging to Mothers – Let’s Put it Behind Us for Good 2020 When my youngest child was three months old, I was preparing to [...]