Jerilyn Wakefield

JERILYN WAKEFIELD graduated in English from BYU and teaches seventh- and eighth* grade science in Tooele, Utah. She lives in Salt Lake City with her son, Jeffrey Leonard, now three.

And Baby Makes Two: Choosing Single Motherhood

Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 4

As a school teacher in Tooele—junior high science/English—I carpool the forty miles from Salt Lake City every day. I had always assumed, as teens turned into twenties, that someday I would be married and raise…