The Redtail Hawk
May 3, 2018I remember how icy the alarm clock was that morning when I grabbed it and fumbled under the covers for the button. I didn’t want my mother to hear it and get up too, because […]
I remember how icy the alarm clock was that morning when I grabbed it and fumbled under the covers for the button. I didn’t want my mother to hear it and get up too, because […]
Thy mind, O man! if thou wilt lead a soul unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and contemplate the darkest abyss, and the broad expanse of eternity […]
“Dear Heavenly Father,” I began, “please help me do well on this test.” I was on my way to the Garfield Community Center in the Central District to take a skills test for a City […]
[…] orchestrates it. And his excitement grows and localizes as the veils slip steadily away, not to music —never to music—but to an ever more insistent rhythm, which, beginning in himself, soon patterns the silent […]
On a snowy evening, Gerard de Valois stepped from a tram near Quai Marcellis in the Belgian city of Liege. He positioned his hat more firmly, tucked his scarf tightly into the collar of […]
[…] a sacrament between mother and daughter, it had been made by Sarah’s great grandmother and her friends —all of them from Manchester. On long winter evenings they sat together and pieced patches of materials […]
Mary Mahoney, a devout Catholic, left Kentucky and came west to Basalt, Idaho, where she met her future husband on the steps of the old LDS ward house. She was a Mormon for the […]
[…] big dreams, I was one of them; I longed for freedom, for a Ford Mustang with meats and headers and dual glass-packs. And then too, I suppose I was tired. John and me would […]
[…] when had she ever needed anyone to lean on? She had looked after herself all her life —managed her own money, traveled once to Hawaii alone, once to the World’s Fair in New York, […]
[…] bank of a creek flowing not far from our home. The woman’s name was Caridad, Belen said —Charity. The family stood huddled together in the middle of the shadowy kitchen, the children still clinging […]