From primitive rocks and clubs to the present nuclear arsenals, the history of warfare is characterized by the dramatic increase in the number of civilians killed in each war and by scale changes in our…
May a nation threaten what it may never do? May it possess what it may never use: These questions, raised in the Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter, state concisely the ethical dilemma with which Christians in…
Nearly everyone talks about nuclear weapons and our nation’s nuclear policies and strategies. Yet very few of us understand even the most elementary vocabulary of the subject. Why should terms like “counterforce” and “countervalue,” “first…
The impact of the Spanish-American War on the people of the American West has been overshadowed by its profound effect upon the American nation as a world power. A little-known sidelight to the war is…
I was six.
I wheeled Grandpa’s milk cans out
to wait like patient soldiers for the cheese truck.
I strutted in a new red and blue
corduroy cowboy suit.
“This past winter there has been a strange fever raging here … . It seems to be contagious and it is raging terribly, nothing seems to stop it but to tear up and take a…
The Principle, Kathryn Smoot Caldwell’s first novel, received the significant encouragement of first prize in Randall Book’s 1983 LDS Novel Writing Contest —$500 plus a $1,000 advance on royalties. (Second and third place winners Carol…
Merchants and Miners in Utah is a mis leading title, for Jonathan Bliss’s volume extends far beyond the boundaries of territorial Utah, extensive though they were, to tell the epic story of the Walker Brothers…
Mouth over the reed,
you empty your feelings
into the hollow heart.
These are the pieces left:
