The most precious gift 2020 has given me – perhaps apart from extra time spent at home with my family – is the opportunity to relive my days as a fangirl. And no, I’m not just referring to my life-long fascination with Star Wars, but the teenage years I spent in solemn devotion to The …
For the past year or so, I have been learning how to play the guitar. I first picked up a guitar in the sixth grade. My fingers bled and I struggled to read the tablature. In the true fashion of a middle schooler, I gave up when things got hard. Now, as a young adult …
Nearly a month ago, I arrived at work in the basement of the Harold B. Lee Library, which had been transformed into what seemed the epicenter of speculation. Was BYU going to shut down campus due to the Coronavirus? Would we finish winter semester classes online, and work remotely? Hours later they announced those very …
This past Tuesday I had the opportunity to join BYU’s STET: The Editor’s Network club on a tour of Cedar Fort Publishing & Media. We got to talk to their acquisitions editors, designers, copyeditors, digital marketers, salespeople – even walk through the warehouse! It was powerful hands-on experience. I love being in classrooms, and I …
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“I desire to do all in my power to help elevate the condition of my own people, especially women. I have desired with all my heart to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual as well as educational work and tend to the rolling on of the work of God upon …
On what I thought was just another Friday night at the movies, I had the privilege of viewing the new film Just Mercy (dir. Destin Daniel Cretton). I had seen the preview once before and only knew that it was about a lawyer moving to Alabama to help an innocent man on death row. It …
I made a New Year’s resolution to read one novel a month. I was the author of my own undoing when I specified that it must be a “novel” and not merely a “book,” or else I could justify my reading for school as sufficient. It’s been difficult for me to read for pleasure while …
