The Charity of Silence
March 29, 2018[…] come home; she didn’t even have her jacket off. “I can’t claim the kids you keep begging for,” my father barked to everyone and no one in particular. “I can’t claim the ones we’ve […]
[…] come home; she didn’t even have her jacket off. “I can’t claim the kids you keep begging for,” my father barked to everyone and no one in particular. “I can’t claim the ones we’ve […]
[…] just below the embankment of an antediluvian oxbow. She had been lying there a long time, be fore the Cayuse and Lewis and Clark and the Grand Coulee Dam and long before that fifties […]
[…] too. I could have insisted on wearing them, but that would have made a lot more work for the nurses, so I didn’t. My wife fretted, but I patted her hand and said, “Don’t […]
[…] ago. Back then, Mom, Dad, and nine Feldsted kids had spilled out of a van big enough for a reform school. Dad had cornered Kevin, man to man, and pulled out his wallet. Mom […]
[…] I was twenty-one and had just finished my junior year at Utah State University in Logan. My forestry advisor there had wrangled me a summer job as an intern with the National Park Service […]
For Neal Chandler, il miglior fabbro “Is Mormonism still part of your Weltanschauung?” Aunt Doris asks me every time she sees me. She knows that at 2:15 on Sunday afternoons I’m blessing the […]
It’s six o’clock, time for dinner and Little House on the Prairie reruns. I walk up the stairs as my mom is pulling some string beans out of the microwave. She asks me if […]
[…] something about Brother B’s personality that repelled him. He wasn’t fake, but he also wasn’t ever com fortable to be around. It’s as if he were a magnet that needed to pull people to […]
[…] immediately what his friend meant. The body can only take a certain amount of pain—physical, emotional, spiritual—be fore it gives up the ghost. Death is the spirit’s rejection of suffering, and no physical body, […]
[…] mentioned it,” says Midge, “but it’s glass. So tighter’s better.” Midge appears to be in her late forties. I know she’s Mormon, too, because her garments show when she bends over. She has auburn […]