[…] stutter, smoking butts with lipstick. Grandma’d long since left Walker, after losing that last chance to win. The horse’s name was Pepe. “Mother, it was close,” he shook his head, looked down, then threw […]
The ranger stoops to toss a stick away and points to a narrow hole dug in the mud. “Snakes,” she says, “are plentiful this year; there’s some bubonic plague in rodents here.”
[…] compelled to defend them against her venom. As Jessie’s character evolves, however, Mormonism is totemic of the search for a kind of instant meaning that all of the characters seek. Neither Mor monism nor […]
[…] though our picture of the Prophet remains filtered by our greater or lesser ability to understand his world, this should not stop us from striving for greater clarity. The Prophet Puzzle: Interpretive Essays on […]
[…] when I saw that my Mia Maid Advisor was having an affair. I’m afraid to tell you the story now, and afraid to think too hard about what I knew then, and what I […]
I am invidious of mothers’ rubber air Connecting them to baby. How they walk With young on hip, the way the baby turns and
In the winter after the martyrdom of her sons, Joseph and Hyrum, Lucy Mack Smith dictated a history of her family to Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, a sympathetic schoolteacher in Nauvoo. Two copies were […]
[…] had to get to Glendora, California, to comfort our daughter, whose husband had died, suddenly and unexpectedly, the previous Sunday morning. When we finished loading the car and turned the key, nothing happened. The […]
[…] considered a serious threat to nature and human life. Utah is targeted by the federal government as the site of the world’s largest nuclear waste dump at Skull Valley, fifty miles from the Wasatch Front.
[…] and inaccurate portrayals of historical figures. Five Utah historians who worked primarily in the period during and after World War II are included in this study which examines the strengths and weaknesses of each historian: […]