Love Your Elders
March 20, 2018Nothing thrilled me more as a little girl than hearing my parents’ courtship story: my mother, diminutive and dimpled, was eighteen, Australian, and a recent convert to the Church, living with her parents and six…
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The Kind of Woman Future Historians Will Study | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
March 20, 2018What happens when a quotation becomes a pop culture slogan—appearing on bumper stickers and coffee mugs and even thong panties? “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” wrote Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in a 1976 academic essay about…
Innocent Hooligan | Douglas Thayer, Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood
March 20, 2018A staple of Douglas Thayer’s fiction is the sensitive, adolescent or young adult Mormon male struggling to come to terms with the burdens of mortality, a sense of sin, or the pressures of exemplary living.…
Good Stories Told Well: A Survey of Mainstream Children’s Books by LDS Authors | Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl; Stephenie Meyer, Twilight; Mette Ivie Harrison, The Princess and the Hound; Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians; R. D. Henham, Red Dragon Codex; Brandon Mull, Fablehaven
March 20, 2018If you’re at all familiar with literary talk these days, you might be aware of the chatter about children’s and young adult literature being the hot new thing. Everyone’s wondering what will be the “next…
Caught Up
March 20, 2018John the Beloved considers the Rapture
Word buckler, chary tribe,
inured lamb,
Epithalamium
March 20, 2018Good advice was of no use in the garden,
reason only rudimentary in her
who slouched toward the tree and took unflinching
what was needed.
Fidelity to Objects
March 20, 2018The ponderous round oak table
calls our family of ten
to their places,
the crowns of our heads
like small planets
stilled in orbit,
mealtime settings like jewels
in an expansive medallion.
Necktie
March 20, 2018Again he stands
at the mirror
and wants to jump
into the waterfall
Grace
March 20, 2018I’m wedged between two lifetimes,
this one and that.
Like cement walls on either side,
they press close.
Domlik
March 20, 2018Winter was Domlik’s best season. The New Year rains were the earth’s sweat; and when the soil perspired, the dirt softened into mud so thick it postponed all organized demining activity. Even the bravest deminer—by…