Lulu: On the Death of a Sister
April 17, 2018Gone
from the pampas.
The only brunette;
her first airplane flight at six months.
DiaBLOGue
Discouragement
April 17, 2018 Discouragement,
is the adversary’s vision of the work
revealed to and
Monologues and Dialogues: A Personal Perspective
April 17, 2018Engaging in dialogue is one of the first experiences we have as human beings. Even when our communication is only inarticulate gurgling, we are participating in some kind of communication. Entering into dialogue with another, whether human or divine, is one of the experiences we bring from the preexistence.
Woman-child | Relief Society Course of Study, Learn of Me
April 17, 2018As a teenager I read my dad’s old priest hood manual written by T. Edgar Lyon. Later I found even older manuals for MIA and Sunday School by other Mormon authors such as E. E.…
Lowry Nelson’s Utah | Lowry Nelson, In the Direction of His Dreams, Memoirs
April 17, 2018Lowry Nelson was one of Utah’s greatest intellectual products. At age ninety-three, this, the final volume of an autobiographical trilogy rounds off Boyhood in a Mormon Village and Eighty: One Man’s Way There. Nelson’s new…
LDS Assumptions | Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead, and Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
April 17, 2018The only major LDS science-fiction writer, Orson Scott Card recently won the Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America for Ender’s Game (1985) and nominations for the Hugo Award. Speaker for the Dead…
Views of Brigham | Leonard J. Arrington, Brigham Young: American Moses, and Newell G. Bringhurst, Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier
April 17, 2018Brigham Young: American Moses makes several important contributions. First, it relies on and quotes extensively from primary sources. Readers will glean a number of new insights. Particularly helpful is Arrington’s chapter on Brigham’s youthful life…
Stones; The Salutation; The Problem; Grandmother, Grandmother, Grandmother; Bishop
April 17, 2018Stones The following poems are taken from a collection called Letting Go and center on the experiences of three Mormon women, Beth, Elise, and Willene, who are spending the summer in 12N, an efficiency apartment…
Long Divisions
April 17, 2018It is alive, the Colorado, its heavy brown waters pulsing through limestone and sandstone layers gouged out before it learned manners from the government and Glen Canyon Dam. “She don’t give a hot sheep shit,”…
“I’d Rather Be…”
April 17, 2018One of the popular bumper stickers of the fifties and sixties told us, “I’d rather be dead than red.” An even more succinct version declared, “Better dead than red.” I remember these slogans because they…