[…] heirarchy, along with those who enjoyed their close association and confidence, have received more than their fair share of attention while the unheralded many have generally been ignored. It is in this light that […]
[…] tradition of strength and dominance, programmed by a dogma of conformity and acceptance, faced with a changing world and annoyed by observable paradoxes between espoused ideals and practice, many Mormon women are in conflict […]
I want to say it’s been swell knowing you,
even as you grow toward the grave,
hurt hours when your confinement will set free
that body from its berth within the womb.
[…] though not in the book, Kenobi feels a disturbance in the Force that informs him that a world has been destroyed. Sir Alec Guinness avers he is not satisfied with the way he played […]
[…] presents the premise that Utah started as an agrarian society of Mormons seeking isolation from the larger world among the Indian settlements. But by the turn of the century the inevitable influx of settlers […]
[…] quick lesson in the power of the press, for the ink was hardly dry on the “Y News” when I was on the carpet. When I refused to name names, I was suspended. When […]
[…] “Pray, take it away. It has no personality.” I cannot imagine how the finest cook in the world could endow tapioca pudding with personality. But I do know how a scholar can endow a […]
My earliest memory of Retty Mott is of hurrying past her house as I walked home from Primary. I hurried past because my cousins had told me that she chased people. Once she had leaped out from behind a tree in her front yard and hit Max Peterson with a fire shovel. She had chased him clear to the end of the block, hitting him all the way with the fire shovel . . .
[…] their possible dissent on grounds that I was over eighteen. They gave hesitant acquiescence, but though I read and reread every page, there was no approval. I wanted that approval; not fear, not just […]