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Soon the deer will leave the mountains.Search our garden for vegetation.Bite the tops off tea roses, their teeth leaving scars.In the yard the ash tree dropsleaves into the browning grass. My husband rakes around each…

For my younger children So you will know, here is a recounting of the quantuminfluences, the little arcs of familiar experience thataccelerate within your own beings, tickling the protonsof personality, exciting your identities into existence,top…

Rinse out the rag while you stand at the door; there is no more ripe fruit at this point in the season. Those wagons that rise on the opposite bank are filled with what they…

My father has appeared—not in a dream—and shown me where to haul the plates off to,a harder task now that I had the recordsof Mormon whole and Ether shortened upand needed a bigger box to…

I once had a bishop who was as guileless as he was faithful, a good and generous man who worked hard and loved us, his ward members, tirelessly. He liked to tell our ward’s young…

While some critique oral history methods, Caroline Kline’s Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness takes significant strides to substantiate the benefits of the method. Among these critiques are the…

F. LaMond Tullis’s Grass Roots in Mexico: Stories of Pioneering Latter-day Saints explores the lives of nineteen people who influenced the founding and growth of Mormonism in Mexico. Tullis is a retired professor of political…

It is a common adage that Mormons are a “peculiar people.” The phrase, taken from the Bible, is meant to imply that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints paved their own…

When I began analyzing literature in high school, I was trained to see a poem as a thing made perfect by intent, by genius, an idea that prepared me to become adept at finding an…