When I signed up to write an article for this blog, I thought: Yeah, it’s going to be so much fun! I’m going to write another internal meaning of a fairytale paper and it’s going to be great! I then proceeded to come to two realizations: 1) It is a lot of work to write that kind of paper; and 2) I have no time. Why don’t I have any time, you ask? Well you see, I am a senior in highschool. You remember high school don’t you? The worst years and the best years. The fond memories, and the cringe-worthy recollections. I am almost done and doing everything I can to stay afloat long enough to graduate and get on with my life. I am halfway through the year and everyday I wonder again if it’s worth it. Is it worth getting out of bed and going to boring classes again and again? But again and again I must subconsciously conclude that it is because I continue to go. That is a choice that I make. Continue reading I Regret My Decision →

I currently have the great honor of preparing a choir to sing at a state-wide Music Educator’s Conference. We have titled the program “Keep On Singing”, which is the title of one of the songs the girls will be singing on the program. Each song has an underlying theme of this title, and has been inspiring us over the course of the school year in many wonderful ways. With these pieces on my mind and in my heart I’d like to share the lyrics with you!

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In my studio I have a beautiful card my mother made me with a photo of my sister, poised like a dancer with one foot planted, drawing a circle around herself in the damp sand on the beach with her extended foot. Beside it is written a portion of this gem from the Writings:

‘Man was created for use, because use is the containent of good and truth, from the marriage of which proceeds creation.. While… a man is in any employment and business, or in any use, in such case his mind is limited and circumscribed as in a circle, within which it is successively arranged into a form truly human’ (Conjugial Love 249)

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I was asked to write an article about my views on abortion for the January issue of New Christian Woman. This is a welcome invitation, as I will turn 70 this year and I have a long history of writing about abortion. Rarely are my views on abortion requested for publication.

When I was growing up, abortion was illegal. Doctors swore to the “Hippocratic Oath” when they graduated from medical school, vowing not to perform abortions as a part of their pledge to “Do no harm”. Only “therapeutic” abortions were legally permitted, supposedly reserved for the most difficult circumstances that threatened the lives of both the mother and the unborn child. In those days, the “fetus” was always called an “unborn child”.
Continue reading Roe v. Wade Revisited →