Last night E told me that I’m building a house. I looked at her, puzzled. She replied:<\/p>\n
“Well you have AROOM and you have an Outhouse, so I guess you should just go ahead and get the whole house.”<\/p>\n
I giggled at her insight. AROOM is my reading\/writing group (it stands for A<\/span> R<\/span>oom O<\/span>f O<\/span>ur O<\/span>wn M<\/span>aking–an allusion to Virginia Woolf that’s highly appropriate for our all-female group). Outhouse is what we call the group of liberal Mormons that we meet with every Wednesday night [The name came from a funny discussion about a year ago that we had about “in-house” versus “out-house” intellectuals. The name seems to fit our ragtag group of Mo’s pretty well and has stuck ever since].<\/p>\n I’d never thought about the group names in relation to an actual architectural structure. But, in a way, it’s apt. For, as a result of these groups I’ve found a community of friends to call “home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night E told me that I’m building a house. I looked at her, puzzled. She replied: “Well you have AROOM and you have an Outhouse, so I guess you should just go ahead and get the whole house.” I giggled at her insight. AROOM is my reading\/writing group (it stands for A Room Of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-lds","category-women"],"yoast_head":"\n