[…] the blurb tells what the book is about. When I taught a course in the art of writing for the San Mateo adult education program, I stressed the importance of letting the reader know, […]
[…] five or six years Rachel retired from most pursuits—with the exception of her reading, meditating, and letter- writing. She was annually honored by a “surprise” birthday party. After one such fete, a re porter […]
[…] During the initial installation, I received a call from a technician who was frustrated because United Parcel Service had failed to deliver a crucial piece of equipment. He was anxious to finish the work […]
[…] Short Fiction Series can be called “a literary event.” Maybe not in the larger context of American writing and publishing, but at least in Mormondom. For one thing, Canyons of Grace is the first […]
[…] razor droned on. Marsha picked up the pen and pad of paper lying on the arm-rest. Letter writing was about the only thing she’d been permitted to do since her last operation. It was […]
[…] you’re closer than you think. And it may be that all of us would do well to get, in some ways, closer still. For a people who manage to watch 251 murders a year […]
[…] is not measured by general conference endorsements of conventional answers but by the way Church publications, Social Service agencies, and the Brethren as individual counselors deal with unconventional problems. As we look toward the […]
[…] to the twolarge rooms where the missionaries lived. There were two single cots in each room, two writing tables, and two small closets. One room had a door that opened onto a small balcony […]
There is an apparent rule, honored in some wards as often in the breach I as in its observance, that talks given at missionary farewells are not to be devoted to eulogizing the departing missionary. […]
[…] a special aura of goodness in the eyes of many Latter-day Saints. It literally enables America to get away with murder. Apostle Mark E. Petersen once affirmed to a military audience that America’s flag […]