Cheryl L. White

CHERYL L. WHITE is an English graduate student at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, where she teaches freshman writing courses. Her emphasis is the literature of ethnic and minority groups.

Laying Our Stories Side by Side: Grandma, Janie, and Me

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 3

I turned from the calendar to find the diary in my bookcase. It was hard to miss; the orange and red cover stood out like a sister at a priest hood meeting. I started to reach for it but stopped and just looked at it. A voice in my head rose above the confusion, “The prophets have said to keep a journal.” Yet I could not pick up the journal and write.