Musings by Lisa Torcasso Downing
Back in February, I vowed to take three or four weeks off from all literary pursuits in order to get my house in order. I’m proud to report that I have finally completed the job. I know, I know. Its June, and June is four months after February. I wasn’t lazy [...]
A: Because the ward choir is so bad.
The Touchstones theme for the next issue of Sunstone is Staying/Leaving.
Touchstones are short personal essays (usually not exceeding 500 words) that resemble stories much more than they do sermons.
Click here for some samples.
Deadline for this theme is June 20. Send submissions to Touchstones editor, Cheryl Bruno: clbruno [at] hotmail [dot] com.
Musings by Lisa Torcasso Downing
I have a moving image in my mind that I replay as if it were film. It stars a child ( a boy I think, even if his hair is long) and he sits, hidden away in a dark recess–an attic, a basement, an old, empty barn–with only his eyes showing [...]
(Editor’s note: following is a sneak peek at issue 155, which will be landing in your mail boxes in about a week.)
By Amy Chamberlain
Living in Dubai means that after a while, you become immune to the incredibly mish-mashed wash of cultures around you. You no longer notice Indian women in silk saris queuing up at [...]
by Features Editor Shelah Miner
I spent yesterday afternoon at home with a sick kid instead of at church. She was just barely sick enough that we didn’t want to inflict her on the other kids at nursery, so I stayed home with plans to plop her in front of the television and write this blog [...]
I hate them. I hate writing them. I procrastinate the task so long that practically all of mine begin with “I apologize for the unconscionable delay…”
Occasionally, I hate writing one because I’m not sure I’ve made the right decision and I’m afraid I’ll want the paper/essay/poem back in a few days. But mostly I hate [...]
Musings by Lisa Torcasso Downing
A year ago, my department head assigned me to teach a sophomore literature class in addition to my regular freshman composition courses. While I didn’t like the idea of building another curriculum, I did look forward to teaching literature. I earnestly began reading the anthology I was provided, but when I [...]
By Heather O.
Followed, quite possibly, by a smack upside my head. Or a swift kick in the heinie. Both of them are warranted.
At 8pm on Tuesday, April 14th, the Howard University PBS station (WHUT) will air Margaret Young and Darius Gray’s documentary Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons. I’ve been interviewing Margaret for an upcoming issue of Segullah, and I know that she’s really excited about one of the nation’s premier historically black universities showing [...]
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