Benediction
April 18, 2018[…] badly. He stayed away four full weeks, reappearing, as everyone now knows, on “that” fateful Sunday. The news of his return could not have spread any more quickly if it had been posted on […]
[…] badly. He stayed away four full weeks, reappearing, as everyone now knows, on “that” fateful Sunday. The news of his return could not have spread any more quickly if it had been posted on […]
[…] but said it way too much. “You look better, Charles. Doesn’t Charles look better? How is Charles today? Better?” Dad decided he was going to let me live with Mom. He called it a […]
The s ame week Karmine discovers her husband is having an affair with a man, she takes her mother to a doctor who finds a tiny patch of cancer on the tip of the […]
[…] startles me—I didn’t hear her come up. “What are you smiling about?” she teases. She seems happier today. “Me?” I say. “No, Harry,” she says. That’s what we nicknamed Jenn’s friend. What an ape. […]
[…] for Sunday, and Mum always says that Sundays are easier to face with a clean house. But today she might just be sitting at the table in the kitchen, wet-faced and dribbly-nosed, staring at […]
[…] occupation, education, religion, and extra-professional activities such as voluntary organization work, hobbies, and reading (books, magazines, and newspapers). Results showed that each of the stake presidents read a daily newspaper and a weekly news […]
[…] for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson As is all too evident from the newspapers, we are again approaching that quadrennial time when nominations for the office of President will be […]
[…] hour plus bus fare? On a cup of coffee and a slice of unbuttered bread (“No ma’ am, I never eat butter”) Villa Mae begins the day’s work swiftly and deftly in spite of […]
[…] of authority, internal structure and religious belief, since the Church is still dynamic in all these areas today. But by 1882 important strides had been made toward stabilizing and institutionalizing procedures and principles. For […]
[…] Studies or Shaker Studies? We all know the answer (there are zero Oneida Perfectionists or Shakers living today), but rehashing this question in the context of a book that compares followers of John Humphrey […]