Keepsakes
March 28, 2018[…] later, another door opened. Karen and Sharlene asked me to go with them into St. George to buy supplies. I was usually the one to stay at home with the younger children when they […]
[…] later, another door opened. Karen and Sharlene asked me to go with them into St. George to buy supplies. I was usually the one to stay at home with the younger children when they […]
[…] belief was that the best course was to let wounds alone for a day or so in order for the body’s natural immunity to initiate healing. One Cedar Valley youth, a McKenny boy, painfully […]
I am twenty-one years old. I lie in the golden light of a Korean September afternoon. I have curled myself up on the musty, avocado-skinned sofa that occupies a large corner of the living […]
[…] history of Nauvoo is friendly history at its finest. It gently questions some deeply held beliefs about the Saints’ tumultuous sojourn at the fringes of western Illinois. The writing is read able and engaging, […]
[…] spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies with the text—though not just as a field for scholarly exploration.
[…] THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY CHANGING as new technologies change the way we think, act, and live. This is particularly true with the many changes biology has wrought in our lives over the last few years.
As in the lives of individuals, certain events in the lives of cities leave such a mark that time is thenceforth measured in terms of before and after. For example, following the Columbian Exposition […]
[…] For the sake of argument, it seemed useful, but in the larger sense, it may be an over-simplification with other consequences. Appleyard would not, I suspect, represent the views of most Mormon scientists themselves. […]
[…] me want to get smart. It made me think I could read books, adjust my posture, and buy the right shoes, be something other than the Jack Fixx I was. I said, “He’s out.” […]
[…] chromosome relations, biochemical changes in the codons that make up the genes. Mutations. Changes in the lineal order of the ordered. Accidents. Surprises. And, my emotional body is more complex then I’d imagined—pride and […]