[…] said ‘yes,’” her voice repeated. “I command you.” Laughing despite himself, he reached out, wincing slightly, knocked over some of the ivory chessmen with the sleeve of his kimono, and placed his hand, deeply […]
[…] I had for gotten, and all the stories I had never been told in the first place. Over time I have realized that there were more absences than presences in what he said, that […]
[…] clerk’s voicemail, who then told his wife, who then told the Relief Society president, who then went over immediately to the Johnsons with the second counselor and sputtered and skirted and asked if there […]
[…] might also point out that the Rambler was manufactured by a car company at that time presided over by prominent Mormon George Romney.) Yet aware of the subjectivity of such stories, she makes it […]
[…] behind a split-rail fence. “It’s beautiful,” my dad said. “It’s for sale. If we had money we’d buy it.” And we climbed the fence and wandered that acre of wildflowers and ferns, ate fried […]
[…] French were placing their shaky confidence in their presumably impregnable Maginot Line; but the Germans simply flew over it or passed around it through Belgium and Holland. I believe the Parisians had a premonition […]
In 1989, the Primary Association released a new songbook for Mormondom’s children, its first since 1969. Evaluating it for a professional hymnody publication, one reviewer commented: “This handsome volume’s 8V2 x 11” pages exude […]
[…] Freedom, the highest civilian honor that the United States can bestow, at a White House ceremony presided over by the president of the United States, who described Hinckley as a “wise and patriotic man.” […]
[…] to kill me? All she could do is say Kyle, please, Kyle, please, the baby carrier hooked over her arm, Stella crying inside, her father, Nathan, waiting for her in the car on the […]
[…] And for weeks now, every time Latham passed Erval in the church hallway, every time he went over to Erval’s house, his good buddy joked with him, “Watch out, Latham. You’re next.” “Don’t plan […]