Well, here it is: the bird cage lining I’ve been slaving away at for the past two months. I uploaded the files for issue 154 to the printer today. And the printer was nice enough to send me a confirmation email: “Your file has been uploaded and a notification has been sent to your sales [...]
Not since Orson Scott Card’s heyday has a Mormon author met with such success as Stephanie Meyer, and not an article is published about her in a national magazine, but it mentions her Mormonism. How has the Twilight phenomenon influenced Mormon culture? How has it affected the way the world at large perceives Mormonism? How [...]
We’ve probably all heard it by now. Even I’ve heard it, and I can’t tell Help! from Yellow Submarine.
Did you know that before becoming the world’s most enduring pop band, The Beatles were the house band for a strip club in Hamburg, Germany? According to a speech Malcolm Gladwell gave [...]
Yesterday I got a call from Julia Duin, the religion editor at the Washington Times. She sounded frantic; apparently a deadline was nipping at her heels. I smiled, remembering my own frenetic years in journalism.
For about 20 minutes, she fired questions at me, which I answered the best I could on the spur of the [...]
A few months ago I had a bit of time on my hands and wandered into my old haunt, Deseret Industries. In my early 20s, I would bring home a bag of used books on a weekly basis, but on this particular visit, only one book caught my eye: Nick Hornby’s novel How To Be [...]
One of the things I worried about when I became a teacher was forgetting what it was like to be a student. I didn’t want to be one of those teachers who expected students to just “get it.” I didn’t want to bulldoze my students with excessive information or overwhelming expectations. Because learning can [...]
This is part of an inter-blog duo of posts on endings in fiction. The sister post, written by William Morris, can be found at A Motley Vision.
Endings are hard. Of all the time I spend writing a piece, at least 40 percent of it will be spent on getting the ending just right. I [...]
By Bryce Peterson
I was nine years old when I became a hardened sinner. Grandpa wanted to teach me to fly fish, so we planned a weekend trip—just the two of us. I loved him, of course, but this particular grandparent was more intimidating than the meanest old-lady-substitute-Primary-teacher.
We rode up in Grandpa’s ancient diesel VW Vanagon—a [...]
This is an edited version of a previous post. It will be appearing on page 3 of the Sunstone arriving in your mailbox very soon. I just wanted to show you what a good bout of editing and an illustrator can do for a piece. Note, for example, the streamlining of the prose and the [...]
1. I like working in my pajamas. At 7:35 a.m., my family goes off to school and I settle down in my office, check what the Amazon MP3 special of the day is, catch up on Facebook, and then get into my tasks for the day. And often, I don’t really get up for any [...]
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