The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives
April 12, 2018[…] whose bedroom I had to stay out of while the cancer ate at her body. I learned over those two years she could not care for me, so by the time of her death, […]
[…] whose bedroom I had to stay out of while the cancer ate at her body. I learned over those two years she could not care for me, so by the time of her death, […]
[…] imprisonment. It began racing from one side of the circle to another and then, quite accidentally, skidded over the line, found itself free, and continued on. That afternoon I was happily occupied playing this […]
in a perfect diamond of flight slip between me and the sky, circle toward rest and cover for the night. The lake is a polished absurdity
[…] destination. The invitation had read only, “April Fool’s Day Party.” Our host, the former bishop, was known for his generosity and love of good times, so the turnout had been high. The mysteriousness of […]
[…] First Ward published a small collection of biographies chronicling the lives of nine senior ward members. Impetus for the project came when news reached Bill Cottam during his initial year as First Ward bishop […]
[…] but seven of them quotations from Elder Boyd K. Packer or the General Handbook of Instructions (1: 6). (It follows an article on Abinadi, which retells the Book of Mormon story for 139 lines.) […]
[…] you both laugh: there are no doctors in the village. “Your next trip to the city you buy a do-it-yourself medical manual and study for the big day which comes two weeks later. And […]
[…] the phone conversation that followed, was an anorexic woman disguised in the sort of garb one would buy at the Teen Depot at Wal-Mart. She had been to a single adults thing and needed […]
[…] school I’d walk the block and a half downtown to the Millard County Courthouse in Fillmore, Utah, where my father worked as the county clerk. I loved the symmetrical purple brick building in the […]
[…] and her first words upon alighting from the train, “My God, what a dump,” soon were all over town. The story describes her efforts to expose her farm-bred students to the great artists in […]