Women’s history got short shrift when the telling of the past focused entirely on wars and laws, but increasingly, as attention is being paid to the domestic history of day-to-day lives, historians are recovering women’s…
Among the great political battles in American history is the heroic struggle of women to gain a voice in government and to overthrow the state and federal barriers which prevented the exercise of women’s rights.…
Adam’s sperm number
one hundred million per cubic centimeter,
hope he can comply with God’s command.
We are nothing but matter, configured into a mass of atoms, configured into molecules, and locked irrefutably into a predetermined arrangement of cells by their genetic codes that link us billions of years to the…
My grandpa Walker Reynolds was a pioneer, too, with a Brigham beard.
Mom says he loved pickles, and dancing music.
Last time we saw him, Grandma said, “It’s time to hug goodbye,”
and all I could think is how Grandpa’s
Did I do the right thing? Maisie Clay is forty-three years old and here she is, sitting on a tombstone in a cemetery in the middle of the night. She is here because she wants…
I sink into a beanbag chair
shaped like a giant ear
but changing shape to fit my rear
The epitome of essential LDS beliefs, now known as the Articles of Faith, that Joseph Smith included in his letter to the editor of the Chicago Demo crat, John Wentworth, in 1842, has been admired…
WEDNESDAY—ALL MY LUGGAGE IS SOAKED and I tore the sleeve of my brand new overcoat in the subway station. Elder Sessions told me not to look away if I noticed someone staring. “Just stare them…
We were like filings, lifted straight
As though a magnet stiffened up
Our figures like the hair upon
Our closely cropped skulls. But we,