These five short stories and twenty-four poems are marked by talent, self-consciousness and unevenness. The stories are more consistently accomplished than the poetry, with one exception I will discuss later. I began at the beginning…
People are always asking me how I like working at BYU Studies. I say . . .
[…] children in a hot car at a freeway rest stop while Hubby takes a leisurely stroll in search of his lost boyhood). And yet there is something terrible about these perfect wives and mothers […]
[…] just recently published, had led him, he reported, through a reverse hegira back to Mormon Utah in search of his traces in the past, towards a discovery of that which is unique and that […]
Some have suggested that the most successful writing about the Mormon experience in the nineteenth-century comes from the frail and fading pages of the personal accounts recorded by first generation Mormons. From the first it…
[…] Douglas. “The 1847 Mormon Migration.” M.A., University of Utah, 1977. Hague, Harlan Hugh. Road to California: The Search for a Southern Overland Route to 1849. Ph.D., University of Nevada, 1974. Harmer, Ralph K. “A […]
[…] it does not touch Sister Durant’s drunken husband. As the sisters ride away, they hear shouting and breaking glass behind them. More than joy, that shared grief is the bond. The other situations ring […]
[…] sensitive to the indulgent smiles and knowing nods, but this is for my life, not theirs. I search for self, the me that is becoming. I bleed that my family must do without all […]
Eliciting commitment while maintaining participative membership is a major consideration for organizations such as the LDS Church. Relatively few Mormons, for example, formally leave the Church, but many “fall away” from participation and commitment. In…
[…] slave to cash and kids and candy, or that I’ll flee and leave you in the sweatyard playing cow; rather, we’ll dive together to the sea and flounder along a reef in search of cave.