Zoë stumbled out into the living room, weeping softly. “What’s the matter, sweetie?” I asked, trying to conceal my alarm. “No, they’re...

[For the prequel, see this post] Utah, 2018 It was one of our last weeks in married housing south of BYU campus before moving to the...

When I was a little girl, I started to see a woman when I prayed. My eyes were always closed when I saw her, though I wasn’t always...

You’ve asked me to write a response to my student evaluations. I’m sitting in my living room, my feet are cold because I haven’t been...

I was on a bike ride during my junior year of high school, the first time I recognized that I was not cisgender. Biking was one of my...

In a bread mixer bowl (not a bread maker) · 5 C. freshly ground whole wheat flour · 2 generous T.s of SAF yeast · 4 ½ C. very warm to hot...

“Oh! You’re left-handed!” I whispered to the woman in the dressing room of the temple, as if I had just discovered the most phenomenal...

She knocks reluctantly on the door and waits a long three minutes for a porch light to pop to sad yellow life. The door opens but the...

(Setting: Dressing room. Scene: Middle school.) "Have you ever seen gay people make out? It's disgusting," my friend said. "Marriage is...

I remember sitting in class at church at age fourteen and listening to a leader tell a story. When she was in college, she took a...

Come to think of it, I always wanted to be friends with the prettiest girl in class. The desire to strike such a friendship was always...

I heard his voice call from the path that I had boarded up and sealed off long ago. In my mind I knew where that path led, and I was...

A phrase that has been in my mind lately is, “Where love is, there God is also.” This comes from the song, “Where Love Is,” in the...

I am not a direct descendant of the pioneers. Handcarts did not carry meager morsels and bundles of dusty family heirlooms. I have never...

I had my exit interview for my mission in a small church in East Texas. We had driven with our STL’s, and everyone was so excited for me....

“There’s a family moving into the ward.” I look up from my laptop and pull out an earbud. “What?” “They’ve got a daughter, a little older...

God sits in my kitchen sometimes. Well, not in mykitchen – in the kitchen of my childhood home, a ‘90s bungalow with white appliances,...

When I was in 8th grade I knew I was going to kill myself. It felt inevitable really. I was miserable. My heart hurt so much. I felt like...

“And by the time I identified as being gay, it was too late. I was already homophobic, and you do not get to just flick a switch on that....

When I see her in my head, as I saw her that first time, she is slightly back-lit, slightly bow-legged, with her slightly masculine round...