Exponent II Call for Submissions – Fall Issue 2018
Our planned theme for the Fall issue of Exponent II is Mormon Women and the Creative Process. Are you an artist? Are you a writer? Are you a maker of beautiful things? Do you solve problems with...
View ArticleCall for Subscriptions – Exponent II Summer Issue 2018
The following is the letter from the editor, written by Margaret Olsen Hemming, for the Summer 2018 issue of Exponent II, which will go to print at the end of July. If you would like to read this...
View ArticleExponent II Call for Submissions – Winter Writing Contest 2019
“And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And (the man) said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And (Jacob) said, I will not let thee go, except thou...
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Today is my birthday. This was not the post I had planned to share. I have a draft with a tiara topped teenage memory bedazzled with poems and cake and confetti. Then my father-in-law died and I went...
View ArticleExponent II Winter 2019 Preview: Letter from the Editor
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And [the man] said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And [Jacob]said, I will not let thee go, except thou...
View ArticleChecking
I was interviewing for TSA precheck status. Sitting on a folding chair in the airport at 8:00 am in the morning, I was feeling proud for following through on what had seemed like a good idea for...
View ArticleMay 1, 2019
Today is May Day. When I was a kid, we came home from school on May Day and my mother would have placed vases of flowers in our rooms. Flowers in my house were not just decorative, they were expensive...
View ArticleWhat I Think of This
The server walked up and surveyed our table. “What do you think of this?” she asked. I had my head down trying to sort out what seemed like a byzantine list of options. To assemble my custom burger, I...
View ArticleUnfinished Post
I have weird hair right now. It is still dark for the most part, curly, shorter than it has been in years. But there is a haystack of grey, coarse, strange difference at the top of my head, a nearly...
View ArticleEssay Prompt
I am helping my niece with her college applications. This was not an obvious assignment. We did not know each other well before this new partnership. Her father, my brother, is much younger than I...
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