Comments on: Not Bread Alone: Chapter 8

By: MDearest

MDearest — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:49:38 +0000

This was most of my internet reading for today. I find it oddly comforting to see a fictional family in a church publication displayed with all the warts mostly intact, alongside the admirable struggles.

Also, the author does do some unexpected things with the timeline, jumping ahead years and leaving gaps that are sparingly filled. I wonder how it will all end. (for us readers)

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:29:43 +0000

Thanks for the information. I have heard of Mötley Vision, but haven’t done much reading there. The Mormon Moment Series has taken on a life of its own, not bad by any means, just time and brain consuming.

Today’s post, Part Ten has a lot of links to Keepa, and my traffic stats show a lot of people leaving poetrysansonions.com to check out the great things here!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:09:22 +0000

Julia, if you aren't already familiar with them, you should check out the blogs A Motley Vision and Dawning of a Brighter Day, both of which focus on Mormon letters, especially fiction and poetry. They don't necessarily publish literature right on blog, but they discuss issues and make recommendations and discuss works, both past and current, that you really might enjoy.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:14:16 +0000

This is true. The two science teachers that I know who were PhD students at the same time, were bright and energetic women.

I guess I haven’t read much Mormon writing, other than here on Keepa, so I don’t know how often women scientists showed up at the time. I guess as long as she isn’t shown as an unmarriageable woman because she has a PhD, I would be happy.

I grew up with a lot of tension, as a young woman, about whether girls should get better grades than boys. One of my most traumatic Wednesday nights was after I set the curve on a Physics test, by a pretty wide margin. The girls, who backed up the boys who wanted me to drop Physics, were even meaner and more degrading. (The one other Mormon girl in the class, who one time admitted to me she answered at least a few questions wrong, on purpose, on every test.) Ironically, science was not my main interest, but I could certainly hold my own.

Anyway, yes Ardis, it is good to show children in the same family having a wide variety of talents!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:44:25 +0000

This was 1930-something … even having a female scientist has to count as some kind of victory, no? It’s a start.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:22:50 +0000

So interesting that a female scientist must be slow and plodding, not like the rest of the bright young people.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:28:16 +0000

Stay tuned for next time, kevinf — same bat time, same bat channel.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:47:26 +0000

What! Not the absent father? Huge red herring there when Professor Rawlings said “Our boy.” And good for Jenny going after her PhD in geology. You go, girl.

And Mel just keeps staring, and staring, and staring…..will Henry actually do something?