Susan B. Taber
SUSAN BUHLER TABER became a member of the Elkton Ward when she moved to Newark, Delaware, in 1982. A version of this essay will appear as a chapter of Mormon Lives: A Year in the Elkton Ward, to be published by the University of Illinois Press in 1993.
Man and Motherhood
Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 3
Latter-day Saint women are not lacking counsel on their proper roles which are, of course, found exclusively within the Church and family. Such writings, appropriately authored by men, carefully detail how women are uniquely suited…
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Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 4
When my two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Abigail, and I went to the hospital, I left the pie crusts and rolls I had mixed up that morning on the kitchen table along with the dress pattern I had bought for my new niece. It had been months since I had felt this energetic, and so that morning I had begun a few projects while I waited for our sixth child to be born. The telephone awakened me from my after-lunch nap; the pediatrician wanted to see me in his office to discuss Abby’s blood test results.
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