Ten Fictions about My Father
March 16, 2018[…] a room stacked full of gold bars.” My father worked for Kennecott that summer. It was the world’s largest open-pit mine. “Was it a big room?” I asked. “Not very,” he said. “Like the […]
[…] a room stacked full of gold bars.” My father worked for Kennecott that summer. It was the world’s largest open-pit mine. “Was it a big room?” I asked. “Not very,” he said. “Like the […]
Section Title Spring Hill Luisa Perkins Becca was taking too long. Emma huddled against the iron fencepost and hugged her knees. The chilly breeze had dried her tears, but her nose was still running. […]
[…] the girls need guidance in establishing their values in life. This includes preparing them to meet the world and people in it who have values different from theirs; helping them to know how to […]
[…] Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon bear witness, “That by him and through him and of him the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God” (Doctrine […]
[…] English, after which she taught these subjects at Snow College for a year. Wanting to see the world, she took a tour of Europe, followed by a month and a half in Greece, two […]
[…] his missionary controversies with the Christian sects; of his fight to get into action in the First World War, when he was commissioned a chaplain above the age limit because of his demonstrated physical […]
[…] same time, our own children gain an opportunity to understand the diversity (and underlying similarities) in the world around them. It would be presumptuous and premature to contend that this kind of social interaction […]
Of the subject of my study, only fragments and copies of fragments are left. These are “Joseph Smith’s Egyptian Papyri” numbers 1, 10 and 11, and the three Facsimiles of the Pearl of Great […]
This took place back in the days when the city was small and its Jewish, dusty streets were trampled under the feet of the most magnificent, powerful empire on the face of the earth. […]
[…] woman who later had nine children. She told us it was better to be born into the world without any shoes than not be born at all. Arriving early has always been one of […]