Waters of Mormon
April 2, 2018[…] her other hand free to stop her nose against the water. The prayer would be pronounced in English, the daughter translating since no one else could. Afterwards, because her daughter couldn’t be asked to […]
[…] her other hand free to stop her nose against the water. The prayer would be pronounced in English, the daughter translating since no one else could. Afterwards, because her daughter couldn’t be asked to […]
From my Mystic Life after near-death accident More than a state of being A new being Suffused in light
[…] 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 […]