by  Eliana : My husband told me he'd found a cute little croissant shop for us to try for breakfast. The whole family was excited ...

by  Eliana : “They’re such good travelers,” my husband and I tell people about our children. “Owen just talks to his fingers in the c...

by  Eliana : We are a family of pacifists by any stretch of definition; my husband, 6’4” and 300 pounds, has never hit anyone in his li...

by  Eliana : I have very little memorabilia from my years at BYU. I don't think I ever owned a piece of clothing or anything stamped w...

by  Eliana : Eliana  Osborn was raised on cold weather and wild animals in Anchorage, Alaska, setting the stage for her adult life in ...

by  Eliana : The Gospel Doctrine lesson this past week was about burdens, or at least that is what I took away from my preparations to ...

by  Eliana : I'm not a big temple goer but I recently was an escort for a young friend getting married whose family couldn't pa...

by  Eliana : Talking about television is a bit tacky but I’m doing it anyway. The NBC show Parenthood has just ended a five year ru...

by  Eliana : I walked by the new nonfiction book shelf at my library and a title caught my attention: I didn't read the small tex...

by  Eliana : Remain anonymous if you must, but this is a safe space for sharing. In the church we talk a lot about the best gifts—servi...

by  Eliana : Driving from Spanish Fork, Utah, all the way to Idaho Falls, Idaho, I start feeling like I need some sort of enhancement p...

by  Eliana : Jared Garrett has recently published a YA novel titled Beyond the Cabin based on his own experiences growing up in a cult o...

by  Eliana : My entire extended family on the maternal side got together for a reunion over Thanksgiving. It was fun, I chatted a lot,...

by Eliana : I have a recurring dream, maybe two or three times a year. I walk into sacrament meeting and see a new family. New to the...

by  Eliana : You know that poem by Langston Hughes ? Even if you don't do poetry, you've at least heard of the drama A Raisin ...

by Eliana : I went to family court with a sister from my ward recently. She's working a plan to get her children out of foster car...

by  Eliana : Why I care about conference talks in non-English : Less ethnocentric . I don't want to debate blue suits/white shir...

by  Eliana : I made friends with a woman at church several years ago, the one you do, based on compatible children. We were miserably p...

by  Eliana : A few days ago I caught the end of a story on the NPR program All Things Considered . Apparently there's been some con...

by Eliana : From my father-in-law to his son, my husband, at some point between ages 21 and 26 when we got married: "There's a...