To write a musical play based on any church theme or motivate will inevitably invite comparison with the “Father of Us All,” Promised Valley, written by Arnold Sundgard (lyrics) and Crawford Gates (music). Promised Valley…
Carol Lynn Pearson, in her delightful musical, The Order is Love, has managed to put her finger on the pulse of Mormon history and discover a vigorous throb of universality which is at times sobering…
I look around me and I laugh. I am caught by the interplay of light and color upon the chandelier. From long ago I see a child’s triumph. In one dangling crystal I see her…
It was nearly seven. Uncanny the way she could sense that particular hour even without looking and even on days that were not Thursday. The library was quiet as always. The afternoon people had been…
I grew up in Snowflake, which lies in desert country in Arizona, altitude 5600 feet. Alof Larson and May Hunt, my parents, were among the early arrivals to this pioneer settlement, named for Erastus Snow…
STEPHEN
carries secrets he hasn’t had time
to decode,
takes his clues from me
as I search for signals myself,
My roots are planted in God’s earth.
My wings extend throughout God’s ether.
My interior is God’s kingdom.
I met my first man in a garden.
He fell easy; it only took a red apple.
I laid the blame on a snake—
Those whom I have called friends,
Whose exchange of thought
Once brought that blessed relief
The ocean’s wide, and I can’t step it;
I love Sam and I can’t help it.
But there ain’t no mule
Had a harder life
Than I
Tryin’ to be Sam’s wife.