[…] 1945, Fawn McKay Brodie’s biography of Joseph Smith, No Man Knows My History, was published by Knopf. The book received critical acclaim, establishing Brodie’s career as a biographer. Nevertheless, the biggest natural market for […]
[…] to be kind and to show affection. This trait, I know, is a special gift in the world of autism. Most autistic children can’t handle touch. Their sensory input is heightened, making it difficult […]
Moments after hearing the bishop’s voice ask if I could speak on the importance of developing talents, another voice spoke the phrase “you reap where you do not sow” into my awareness. As we […]
[…] I can see the white prairies through the spokes of the wheel, pie pieces of the dark world outside that you would never want to eat, no matter how much your baby shakes when […]
One of the most difficult and perilous times in a life is the transition from childhood to adulthood. Moving into the freedoms of adult life while still relying on parents to pay the bills […]
In an August 2008 letter to Brigham Young University’s student newspaper, a disgruntled student (who believed campus Republicans were deflating his car tires because of his Obama bumper sticker) made this inadvertently revealing statement: “I […]
[…] a stake high councillor, a Latter-day Saint woman confided in me, “Bones heal faster.” She spoke with the authority of a victim of both physical and emotional abuse. When I confidentially shared her comment […]
[…] write about environment and human effects on it at several scales from, for example, just cleaning up the place to mass conversion of landscapes and acidification of lakes. It seem to me that no […]
Emma Lou Thayne may have been the most expansive person I have ever met. She managed to transform every event in her life into grist for her creative mill. Accidents and illnesses that would […]
On a late October afternoon, as I stood on my parents’ driveway in the pleasantly chilled autumn air, a tree applauded me. I was twenty-one years old. Just days before, I’d returned home from […]