All politicians, by definition, are compromised, but these days Congress is filled with “shills,” slang for someone who, according to dictionary.com, poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game; or, a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons …
Recently, I had the privilege of having a short story appear in Moth & Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death, published by Signature Books (2017). It’s a collection of short (most of them around 1,000 words each) essays, sketches, short stories, illustrations, poems … even a play. And of course, the small …
In this Aug 16, 2008 talk I was asked to participate in a THIS I BELIEVE session at the Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium. I was one of, I believe, six speakers who were tasked with illuminating . . . well, what we believe. I was pretty pleased with how this …
This essay was originally a talk given at The Sunday Gathering, August 21, 1994 at the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City. It was later printed in Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring, 1998. WHEN MY FIRST MARRIAGE ENDED IN DIVORCE in 1991, what I describe as my …
Part 17: Kurt Cobain Getting Saved Back in Liverpool, The Quarrymen have changed their name to Johnny and the Moondogs but are without a drummer and John Lennon is reduced to abandoning his guitar and standing between Paul McCartney and George Harrison, one hand on each of his buddy’s shoulder, …
PART 9: We’re taking our Cleveland detour for Joe. But I also realize that being the third day now that I’m wearing the same cardigan, admittedly over one of the new T-shirts Cheryl has bought me and Joe, that I am indeed in need of respite. The sky is clear …
In 1992 I moved from the religion of my childhood, to the religion of my ancestors. But I would come to believe that jumping spokes was only a lateral move. All spokes are required to hold the wheel of religion intact with God at the center. But what if the …
