Essays Marigold Today, please enjoy the audio of Rebbie Brassfield's story on our Strangerville Live stage over the weekend. We've also published the text below. Marigold by Rebbie
Essays The Award: A 1985 Mormon Film About Boys Who Are Declared Heroes For Doing Less Than The Bare Minimum I need you to know about a 1985 Mormon film called The Award. I grew up watching this on a regular basis. I've seen it at least 12,
Essays Coffee It probably wasn’t until I was nearly a teenager that I was even aware of coffee. Sure, I had encountered it before, but I doubt I wondered what it
Essays He's Probably Still Afraid of Seat Belts This piece was reader submitted by Jen Prinster; art by Christopher Patty. Long before high-back booster seats with side impact protection, children were bouncing around in cars like pinball machines.
Essays Pioneers In Petticoats: A 1969 BYU Film About Trashy Women I've been putting this one off for years because it felt too overwhelming. But at long last, please enjoy my recap of the 1969 BYU cinematic masterpiece, Pioneers
Essays Good Morning Did U Floss? By Rebbie Brassfield [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/author/rebbie/] Like every idiot who moves to California, I had not considered the fact that I would never be able to settle
Essays The Long Road Back: A 1965 Mormon Film About Chastity. I Think. By reader request (I don’t remember who. Sorry.), I’ve decided to take a deep dive into a 1965 Mormon film called “The Long Road Back.” We begin with
Essays A Flushed Toilet There was a yellow split-level house just on the next street over where Sandy Parker lived. She had a boy my age named Paul Parker. Paul Parker’s large round
Essays My Elderly Parents Got Covid And It Was Terrifying When we entered These Unprecedented Times due to the Covid pandemic, my immediate thought was "my parents better not catch this thing." It occupied much of my brain
Essays Measure of a Man: A Recap of a 1962 BYU Film About BEER Ever since I started recapping bad old Mormon movies people have been telling me I “must” check out Measure of a Man. It appears to be a 1962 film produced
Essays Stepping Out This piece was submitted by a writer who has requested anonymity. I squirmed on the backless wooden bench where I sat, hoping my face was not turning red. The minister
Essays Shannon: A Recap Of A 1961 BYU Film About A Very Naughty Girl When I saw there was a BYU film from 1961 called “Shannon” I pulled the trigger and that’s how we ended up here. I have not seen this. I
Essays A New Kind Of Peace This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. I was just about to leave work for the day when my husband called me. “Class has been canceled. They’
Essays 2020 Vision This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. Recently I saw a billboard that said, “It’s time to see with 2020 vision.” I laughed a laugh that
Essays Godmothers of Country Music This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. My junior year of high school I took AP Language and Composition, a sort of writing and rhetoric course. Unlike
Essays How Near To The Angels: A BYU Film Recap From 1956 That Will Make You Feel A Lot Of Things This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. At some point during my periodic search for obscure, horrifying old Mormon films, I discovered a real doozy. This was
Essays The Love/Hate State: An Essay About Polygamy This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. I moved back to Utah last summer, after eight years away. I came back kicking and screaming and it’s
Essays We're Coming To The Beehive State. Come On! This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. I sat on the grass near Brigham Young’s grave as a bologna sandwich that had been prepared by a
Essays The Mink Creek Ghost: A Probably True But Hopefully Not True Story This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. When I first met my husband in 2015, he was living in another state. We did the long distance thing
Essays When You're a Virgin And Your Job Is To Sell Sex This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. I was not the only Mormon who worked at TBWA/Chiat/Day in the year 2011. Just the only one
Essays Classic Skating: Puberty On Wheels I was eight years old when I was first introduced to Classic Skating. A neighborhood mom had called my mom to let her know they’d be celebrating her son’s birthday over roller skates and outdated rock music in the local roller rink.
Essays Happily Married and Mad About BYU Dating This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. I’ve been thinking a lot about BYU dating lately, which is strange given a) I am a decade removed
Essays Boy Scouts of America: A Quest for the Eagles' Nest Just before my 8th birthday I was shoved into the neighbor lady’s house down at the end of the street for my first Cub Scout meeting. My friends were there, all boys around my age in half-tucked-in dark blue buttoned-up shirts adorned with patches that looked like sloppily-sewn postage stamps.
Essays About Babies and Bad Timing When my husband and I got married he was undocumented. Our honeymoon was spent driving cross-country from our wedding in Nashville back to Utah because he couldn’t fly. We
Essays Meghart As I examined the portrait of my murder I reflected on my life choices and tried to pinpoint the exact moment when things started to turn. It must have been,
