“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...

One of my good friends is the first to know. He picked me up from the hospital. Cold, so cold, stomach rolling, itchy hospital bracelet,...

These are some of the articles of my faith— I believe in: Heavenly Parents, who want us to make mistakes and get messy. We see Them...

I’m shaking and I can’t get it under control. I wrap my arms around myself while I shift in my armchair. Mom is sitting across from me on...

“Should I take my wedding ring off for this?” I ask Nate as I bundle up to head into the dark evening. “...Why?” “I don’t know. It just...

THE ROOMMATE We both liked the same boy. I had complicated feelings about her. I was jealous of both of them when they spent time alone...

I gagged when I opened the bread drawer. Scooping out my fancy 24-grain loaf with both hands, I glared through the thin plastic. The...

It had been one of those nights where sleep was just at the edges of my eyelids, but my brain hadn’t gotten the memo. Ever since I had...

Her smile mirrors my emotion when I share my moments of joy that are mile markers in my struggle. She travels with me in and out of the...

I was born with my crown of glory A beautiful curly, kinky, queer mass of blackish-brown I was born with my crown of glory Its bounce,...

I came out to my mom this summer. My grandparents on her side of the family have a week reservation in a tiny condo at a golf course...

I hit rock bottom in the eighth month of my thirtieth year. I knew I needed to find the road back to the top. I took the obvious and most...

“How do you balance what the Church has said with the revelation you’ve received?” my sister asked me once over the phone, her voice just...

The first political campaign I volunteered for, Arizona Proposition 102, was against my own future rights. I was 13. In 2008, Arizona...

This is not a love story. My parents told us their love story as if it were a fairy tale. It is the story of a beautiful young woman (for...

I. I am exhausted, ready to go to bed as we pulled into our campsite after a long day in Yosemite. Thankfully camp was all set up, ready...

After the first 2 sessions of the April 2020 General Conference, I was stressed and trying to unwind by scrolling through Twitter. I saw...