Joseph Smith’s first visionary experience with the Divine was occasioned by pondering the swirling stars, radiant sun, and powerful Earth. Early Mormonism was tied directly to the land, be it the banks of the Susquehanna, Nauvoo, or the Salt Lake Valley. Sacred Land is an idea rooted deeply within the Mormon psyche. But that connection …
Speaker: Rachael Lauritzen
SL09174 Panel: Counting to Infinity: How Blogging Helps Process the Travails and Triumphs of Motherhood [Partial]
The term “Mommy Blog” has been used to define as well as cordon off writing about motherhood from “serious” blogging. Nonetheless, blogs about mothering flourish as an online medium where women write about, process, and compare notes on the experiences, challenges, and joys of mothering. Why has this focus in blogging taken off and kept …