The Youngest Daughter’s Tale
April 14, 2018Three of them are older. None
Grew bold enough in tone and manner
To carry her executive airs.
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Of Pleasures and Palaces
April 14, 2018(1961) I sat waiting in the downstairs living room in the “House of Happiness” where only a correct, efficient, middle-aged nurse interrupted a grueling aura of lost wills, defeated pluck. The inmates, whose residence in…
Thin Then, November
April 14, 2018When the arduous season conies, again,
unexpectedly, air rushes through
needled trees causing a sudden
shift of time, a shift of light:
Just Enough Truth for Christmastime
April 14, 2018In a couple of weeks, I’ll pack up my truck and with my roommate head for Utah. We’ll be there the week before Christmas, skiing and visiting friends and family. We both bought new skis…
Going Home
April 14, 2018“Walk,” scold your doctors, but you snort
that it will take a cold day in hell
to make you shuffle from room to room
like some old man. So here I am,
Cancer: Fear, Suffering, and the Need for Support
April 14, 2018Fear, suffering, and a need for support are part of the experience of every person with cancer, but people are often uncomfortable with and shy away from these human emotions, which seem like admissions of…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Spiritualism and “New Religions”
April 14, 2018It has been observed that “many who look to Sherlock Holmes as the supreme literary spokesman for rationalism feel dismay and bewilderment about his creator having become a leading champion of a doctrine that seems…
The Grammar of Inequity
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 83–96
This essay explores some of the strengths of deliberately choosing
to relate to our world with gender-inclusive language in three areas
On Being Male and Melchizedek
April 14, 2018On 27 July 1989, in the middle of the night, two people stopped their truck on our street, watched until they thought we were in bed, then ran across our front yard, threw a grenade-sized…
Mormon Women and the Right to Wage Work
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 47–82
In this essay, I will analyze recent Church discourse against a pattern of constricting employment options for women and will discuss the implications of that pattern.