A Proselytor’s Dream
April 21, 2018Mary 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 remaining…
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 remaining…
The quilt had been magnificent once. Passed down through the years like 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…
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[…] a rhythm eventually: Amelia over to play Yahtzee or something as she told stories of Tolstoy or Manhattan or the Peace Corps; guilt as he delivered the papers. Sometimes he wondered if he was […]
[…] tell you what,” said Tim, “These trees be damned. I’m going home for a nice tall cold Manhattan. You want to join me?” Then he looked at Brick. “I don’t mean to tempt you. […]
I brought my daughters to your grave
There in the river’s bend
Not far from where, their age,
I watched you dedicate the monument
To Jim Bridger: trapper, river-searcher.
You lay deep in Utah’s summer
So still they couldn’t imagine
This was their grandfather,
Yourself a monument now
To probing dry country.
[…] don’t you come back with me to California for a visit? We’ll go to Disneyland and the beach and even Hollywood.” “You don’t know your dad.” “Just tell him I asked you and you’re […]
[…] yet. As I was preparing to write this review, I spent a Sunday morning walking on the beach with a friend who is also the leader of Equality Utah—a gay Mormon man—an icon, really—who […]