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She/Her. Writer of Historical Fiction & Gothic Horror. Feminist Mormon history nerd. Grad student at SHSU. THE FOURTH WIFE coming March 2026 from Kensington. Rep: Rach Crawford @ Wolf Literary
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My professor just explained Zotero. How have I never heard of this before?! Life changing!

A Saturday with my favorite things: history, cemeteries, and bookstores.

When you watch the Ruby Franke documentary and you see someone you knew from church back in the day in the connexions cult videos 😬

Just checked in with the daily horror that is the news and the Calm app has the nerve to ask me how I’m feeling…

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

What?! My recent blog is featured in Salt Lake Tribune’s latest from Mormon land! www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

New fear unlocked: random men approaching me in parking lots to give their negative thoughts on my EV. Please take your fragile masculinity somewhere else.

If you’re siding with Vladimir Putin, you’re wrong.

I have to research a local place for potential national historic site listing and of course I had to find a spooky old cemetery. This assignment is suddenly very exciting.

We sold 100 boxes of Girl Scout cookies tonight!! Finally getting these things out of my garage!

My class assignment this week is to find a job listing in public history. I am unsurprisingly drawn to any job that involves wearing a historical costume.

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

My latest blog is up on microfeminism & Mormonism: exponentii.org/blog/mormon-...

My girls have about 180 boxes of Girl Scout cookies left to sell. Time for my annual cookie anxiety attack 😅

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Happy Valentine’s Day!

God bless the lady who went of her way to stop at our Girl Scout cookie booth in the rain and bought TEN boxes.

I turned in my proposal for book 2. It’s historical, speculative, feminist, and a dash of Mormon weirdness. The more I research, the more excited I am.

I'm definitely turning the Mormon blog I blog at into all-Sam-blogging-about-the-church's-policies-on-undocumented-immigrants-all-the-time. And this morning is no different. Here, some (probably inadvertent) effects of its new policy on the full participation of undocumented members.

Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.

After many requests to set up book recommendation lists, I found a good solution that’s easy to use! You can check out my Benable to find all my book recs, categorized by genre: benable.com/i/3DP28

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Being a Girl Scout leader is awesome. Tonight the girls made fancy Belgian liège waffles and now my kitchen smells amazing and I get a delicious dessert.

Me to all my readers:

Laying sick in bed, cheering on the anti-ICE protests on the 101 and watching the Grammy’s raise funds for the fires. I love LA

Trump does enough from the White House that’s terrifying, but what he inspires is also atrocious. The racist Patriot Front—a modern KKK—marched in Herriman, UT, yesterday, terrorizing non-white families. Especially egregious is that I’d wager many of them are currently sitting in LDS congregations.

We adopted a new polydactyl friend. Meet Rocky Raccoon

Announced in 2020, the Shanghai People’s Republic of China Temple appears to have been dropped from the status report put out by the LDS Church News last October. www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2024...

Update: Fire progress has been stopped! Thank you firefighters! Stay safe, Ventura County ❤️

A fire just broke out on the other side of our mountain. Praying for the firefighters and a quick containment!

I’ve been registered to vote for 18 years but today is my first time being called in for jury duty. Pretty impressed I made it this long.

The air smells of smoke and ash. Here we go again.

If apostles of Jesus are on the earth, they'd sound like Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde.

And our power has been shut off for the third week in a row due to high winds. Is this just my life now?

I just realized that the new LDS hymnal omits the 2nd verse of Amazing Grace, basically removing the actual message of grace from the song. It’s so on brand it’s honestly comical.