Penny Armstrong

PENNY ARMSTRONG lives in Ogden, Utah, with her college-aged daughter. She graduated from Weber State College and Antioch University in San Francisco. After joining the LDS church as an adult, she served a mission in Seoul, Korea, where she spent a couple of additional years studying brush art and Korean history. She especially likes cooking, writing, painting, and taking advantage of the cultural and environmental bounty of Utah.

The Hands of Cowboy Red

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 1

When my father sucked in and released his last hyphenated breath, I was holding his weightless hands, trying to make them warm. He was old. He had cirrhosis of the liver, an abdominal aortal aneurysm…