For the past six years, I have been engaged in various dialogues best under stood by a quick trip through the editorial correspondence files, a sort of diary (or dia-log) of my term as […]
[…] older girls posing with their husbands and children. Marsha focused on Adelle, her youngest, her unmarried daughter, still living alone and sorting packages for the United Parcel Service, still taking three showers a day […]
[…] is located within the boundaries of the Oakland Stake, which, until recently, followed a pattern of growth and membership typical of U.S. urban areas. This pattern changed abruptly with the influx by 1981 of […]
On the morning the Challenger space shuttle exploded, Maggie shot on over. I’ve been thinking about both events as though they were connected, even though I know they aren’t. They were separated not merely […]
[…] dominated, and the subordinate group has often been segregated, that is, separated physically “in residence, workplace, and social functions.” Attempts to eliminate segregation have taken several alternative routes, including (1) assimilation, “the process by […]
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[…] Republican. Criticism of Secretary Benson even included the First Presidency. In 1958, Counselor Clark said, “I did not think the Secretary of Agriculture would yield to argument,” in conversation with the chair of the […]
The morning promised no bright sun. No blue sky. Only dust from the desert’s chalky red soil. “Lord in heaven,” Rosalinda said to herself. She stared out the window, worried about her garden. She couldn’t […]
[…] rope nets, growling like the cowardly lion of Oz. Their happy shrieks are echoes from a time not long ago when I too pursued my son around the jungle gym: “I’m the Hot Lava […]
[…] of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is overwhelmingly positive. Impressive in physical appearance, with a large frame, McKay stood six feet one inch, making him the tallest church president since Joseph […]