The Weed
April 15, 2018[…] in the yard. The police were very kind. They made him return the three idle carts and buy the fourth. Two weeks later the same officers returned with a blaze orange stocking cap. They […]
[…] in the yard. The police were very kind. They made him return the three idle carts and buy the fourth. Two weeks later the same officers returned with a blaze orange stocking cap. They […]
Spring sneaked into town while court convened. One noon, I walk from my office to my old neighborhood and find it well-kept. The ditch I’d hurtle galloping home from school has been curbed and guttered.
[…] house were a garden and a barnyard from which came eggs, tomatoes, corn, and milk. One could buy shovels, shoes, and firecrackers at the ACMI, the Church-owned cooperative. Along the lanes were ripgut juniper […]
[…] of Utah and Mormon historiography ought to be rejoicing at the flowering of literature in that field over recent years. Beginning perhaps in the last decade with Wallace Stegner’s biography of Bernard DeVoto and […]
[…] which meat cuts were on sale. Gran always memorized the specials. It took her five hours to buy her groceries and another day to evaluate them. “I don’t think this grapefruit is worth half […]
[…] few days on a personal matter. He hopped aboard a train, arrived in Salt Lake City at 6 A.M. the next morning, and went immediately to the Presiding Bishoprics’ Office, then located in a […]
[…] each day, would recite poetry to her and take her horseback riding in the parks” (1983, 5- 6). Fawn’s parents had strong reservations about the match. Flora recalled that the McKay family fasted and […]
[…] you . . . ? Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit. (1 Cor. 6:19—20) Jung offered three profound criticisms of Christianity (Dourley 1984) : its subjugation of the feminine; its […]
[…] one of the bicycle repairmen. I wish now that I had gone out to the front, leaned over the counter towards Mr. Earl, and said coolly, “When I am twenty-one, I will marry your […]
[…] Evan Mecham. Mon day mornings were brighter because people brought to work new jokes they had heard over the weekend. Children learned jokes at school and brought them home to their parents. Business people […]