They Did Go Forth
April 13, 2018[…] fields and counseled him to “quit a-plowing and go to doctring”), from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake City, thence to the Iron Mission at Parowan, to the Cotton Mission at Harrisburg, and finally to […]
[…] fields and counseled him to “quit a-plowing and go to doctring”), from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake City, thence to the Iron Mission at Parowan, to the Cotton Mission at Harrisburg, and finally to […]
[…] like he taught, and cussing the whole family for moving from the family farm to the “evil” city. I’d be so scared, Diary, I’d promise myself in the pillow I’d be good the next […]
I remember that day perfectly—every violet plum with its orange smudges, the rim of the huge blue canning kettle smeared with thick yellow slime and little tatters of purple peel. It was the day I…
[…] that he didn’t know what anesthesia was or, incredulously, as if anesthetizing cows was some kind of city slicker idea. Either way the answer was no. I knelt down too, and put both hands […]
There were times, especially lately, when he won dered if he were doing any real good—any human good—other than keeping the Mt. Taylor 2nd Ward safely afloat and on course. Maybe it was the […]
[…] more serious showing signs of neurosis, the less earnest having at least adopted the notion that eccentri city was a first cousin to genius. One student refused to turn in anything that wasn’t written […]
[…] clue.” The next morning Buck cut himself shaving five times. *** Dibeh-Dzeh-Ah-jah-Gah-Sheep-Elk-Ear-Rabbit. His last trip to the city he was standing alone outside Wal-Mart waiting for his daughter. He thought he must look like […]
You know, what constipates her, really, is all those folks peering over her shoul der, not only looking for their names or themselves on her Mac screen or on the pages between the grainy […]
[…] and looks out across the raspberry bushes and the fences. Finally she says, “She was from the city. This place didn’t suit her. She said she got tired of the desert and all the […]
[…] a business trip out West I caught a free night and saw the Cavs in Salt Lake City. They whipped the Jazz. The kid, LeBron James, went for thirty. She said, “I can’t keep […]