Thanksgiving
March 23, 2018[…] even before he and Beth married. Sometimes he would write, “Thank you for bringing Beth into this world.” Other times, “You’re the mother that I never had.” Although he did have a mother: a […]
[…] even before he and Beth married. Sometimes he would write, “Thank you for bringing Beth into this world.” Other times, “You’re the mother that I never had.” Although he did have a mother: a […]
[…] his breath pulsing against the back of her neck. “I’m fine,” she says again. The day is breaking across the Midwestern horizon. Yet an other day. Suddenly an idea comes to her, clear as […]
[…] the problem of turning a desert frontier theocracy into a standard democratic American state. To the outside world the practice of polygamy came to be the symbol of the so-called Mormon rebellion, and it […]
[…] an Egyptian lady named Ta-shere-Min. These scrolls tell of “the terrors which she felt for the next world and about the great dreams which she had for eternal life.” An article by Professor of […]
[…] search. It is a weaving of the best that is thought and felt and done in the world into the warp and woof of the national life and character. It is even more than […]
[…] such a campaign may have great practical experience, excellent ideas, and the most honorable intentions in the world, but since the operation is invariably so large and the organization is generally jury-rigged, breakdowns are […]
[…] know what little I heard and what I saw. I saw and heard from an English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, World War II veteran, bachelor of science, state university, depression of the thirties background. My Chicano-American brother […]
[…] write anything that anyone would want to read. I just didn’t think that anyone in the whole world would want to publish anything written in St. George, so I thought maybe I could do […]
[…] articles in Utah and their subsequent reputation there. We cannot imagine those articles being written today: the world has changed too much. Mutatis mutandis, granting the idioms and sentiments of this later time, if […]
[…] the West has happened in a single generation in Asia. Japan was ushered forcibly into the modern world by Perry’s American fleet; China began the process, still incomplete, during the Opium War; India, Indonesia […]