Refugee Mothering
Natasha Loewen’s mothering post wraps up the UP CLOSE topic of motherhood for May. Natasha lives in central Alberta with her husband, four children, and a large yellow lab. She is starting a 4-year...
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We’re happy to tell you that we’ve managed to sneak in one last UP CLOSE motherhood post by Eliana Osborn. Eliana worships the sun in the desert southwest. She spends her days teaching her two young...
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With great pleasure we bring you this post by Deja Earley to kick-off our June UP CLOSE theme of Marriage MAKING IT WORK. Deja lives outside Boston with her husband and three cats. Her poetry and...
View ArticleThe Nature of Union
Susan Noyes Anderson has written our UP CLOSE: MARRIAGE MAKING IT WORK post today. Sue describes herself as a grandma who loves to write and a writer who loves to grandma. She hails from Northern...
View ArticleA Moment of Clarity
Heather Olson Beal is guest posting for this week’s UP CLOSE – MAKING MARRIAGE WORK piece. She is a mom of three kids who sometimes drive her nuts despite being genuinely great. She lives in deep...
View ArticleTravels in the Islamic World
Today’s UP CLOSE trips and travels post comes from Melanie, who lives and works in the Washington, DC area. She loves planning trips almost as much as she loves taking them, and sometimes she has...
View ArticleRevisiting First Impressions
Rosalyn Collings Eves is our UP CLOSE Trips and Travels guest author today. She enjoys traveling, although she hasn’t been able to do nearly as much of this since becoming a mother to two young...
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Today’s UP CLOSE post is from the trips and travels of Ellen Patton of Lexington, Mass. Late-night baking, antiquing and exploring New England are some of her loves. She believes strongly in writing...
View ArticleAn Inner-Height Love Story
Michelle Larson is: wife, mom to 5, future adopted mom to a child from Ethiopia (waiting for referral), director of a non-profit called Grow.Learn.Give., sister of twenty-six (counting in-laws),...
View ArticleGirls Who Choose God: Stories of Strong Women from the Book of Mormon
A year ago we reviewed the first book in the Girls Who Choose God series, Stories of Strong Women from the Bible. Today we are very pleased to share that it was so well-received, a second book, Girls...
View ArticlePrayerful Wrangling with the Book Of Mormon
We are delighted to have McArthur Krishna guest posting all the way from India. McArthur and Bethany are the powerteam authoring the Girls Who Choose God series. If you haven’t discovered these books...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of Cole’s Mommy
We’re happy to tell you that we’ve managed to sneak in one last UP CLOSE motherhood post by Eliana Osborn. Eliana worships the sun in the desert southwest. She spends her days teaching her two young...
View ArticlePuddles of Blossoms
With great pleasure we bring you this post by Deja Earley to kick-off our June UP CLOSE theme of Marriage MAKING IT WORK. Deja lives outside Boston with her husband and three cats. Her poetry and...
View ArticleThe Nature of Union
Susan Noyes Anderson has written our UP CLOSE: MARRIAGE MAKING IT WORK post today. Sue describes herself as a grandma who loves to write and a writer who loves to grandma. She hails from Northern...
View ArticleA Moment of Clarity
Heather Olson Beal is guest posting for this week’s UP CLOSE – MAKING MARRIAGE WORK piece. She is a mom of three kids who sometimes drive her nuts despite being genuinely great. She lives in deep...
View ArticleTravels in the Islamic World
Today’s UP CLOSE trips and travels post comes from Melanie, who lives and works in the Washington, DC area. She loves planning trips almost as much as she loves taking them, and sometimes she has...
View ArticleRevisiting First Impressions
Rosalyn Collings Eves is our UP CLOSE Trips and Travels guest author today. She enjoys traveling, although she hasn’t been able to do nearly as much of this since becoming a mother to two young...
View ArticleUnexpected Adventures
Today’s UP CLOSE post is from the trips and travels of Ellen Patton of Lexington, Mass. Late-night baking, antiquing and exploring New England are some of her loves. She believes strongly in writing...
View ArticleAn Inner-Height Love Story
Michelle Larson is: wife, mom to 5, future adopted mom to a child from Ethiopia (waiting for referral), director of a non-profit called Grow.Learn.Give., sister of twenty-six (counting in-laws),...
View ArticleGirls Who Choose God: Stories of Strong Women from the Book of Mormon
A year ago we reviewed the first book in the Girls Who Choose God series, Stories of Strong Women from the Bible. Today we are very pleased to share that it was so well-received, a second book, Girls...
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