Summer Story
March 28, 2018[…] he was caught drinking beer with some other guys and was reprimanded. Dave quit school rather than live under the punishments they wanted to load on him. He came home and kicked around for […]
[…] he was caught drinking beer with some other guys and was reprimanded. Dave quit school rather than live under the punishments they wanted to load on him. He came home and kicked around for […]
[…] in Eastern Montana. They were surrounded and killed “to a man,” history books solemnly intone. The bad news reached Philadelphia, which was wrapped in bunting for the nation’s hundredth birthday. It was an unbelievable […]
[…] bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, Is it I should know no secrets That appertain to you? Am I yourself But, as it were, in sort or limitation, To keep with you at […]
[…] somehow still resolute. I was moved to reverence during those quiet scenes in the hospital where, awaiting news of his sick companion, Elder Allen sits next to a statue of Christ in brilliant red, […]
[…] man with three other wives and nine children. He was over fifty. The night I heard the news, I started to cry. I tried to get Sharlene to explain it to me. She told […]
[…] rarely speak out since what I say has no consequence except in my immediate family, but I am a cold war veteran who cannot easily bury my experience. I watched that intense era rupture […]
[…] Of course, the mechanism of change could be a variety of different kinds of things. But I am going to tell one story that is based in Mormon folk theology and so may be […]
[…] into the middle of a plot, without knowing the beginning or the end.” Jack Mormon that I am, the show made perfect sense to me. What McCarthy didn’t know was that Joseph Smith’s “restored” […]
[…] told us we were wasting our time.” “Hours?” “Well,” she concedes. “Maybe forty-five minutes.” “Snipes don’t even live in Nevada,” he says. “That’s why you were wasting your time. Snipes live in Utah. And […]
[…] an enervating salve, however temporary, to what the Mormon Alliance has termed “spiritual abuse.” Now that I am no longer LDS, having resigned my membership, other things seem more important to me than ring-exchanging […]