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October 2013

October 28, 2013
A certain woman had a son. They were not wealthy, but she had given him...
October 26, 2013
I once learned how to play several stanzas of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody. I played them...
October 24, 2013
Black History through Film and Fiction Yes! I will propose it. Add or critique. I'm...
October 24, 2013
Fourth grade can be terrible. Not only do you get introduced to hard math, but...
October 08, 2013
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud BY JOHN DONNE Death, be not proud, though some...
October 07, 2013
Who are the three women in J. Kirk Richards's painting of the lepers? They do...
October 04, 2013
Part I: Caves A year ago, I visited J. Kirk Richards's studio. I saw a...
October 02, 2013
Dear Lord, I am about to enter the world-wide internet, where good people can use...

September 2013

September 29, 2013
These words, beginning my friend Russell Stevenson's one-sentence summary of one of my blog posts,...
September 27, 2013
This is Augustina Choc and her family. It's not a great picture. You can see...
September 26, 2013
This was one of the last posts I did when I blogged at By Common...
September 20, 2013
When my family moved to Utah from Illinois, I spent the last month of fourth...
September 18, 2013
The photo on the right was taken this morning. My brother, Dell, took it. That's...
September 14, 2013
Yes, it is foolish to rush in yet again after the reception my initial blog...
September 12, 2013
I am re-posting something I wrote several years ago, because of the wonderful news we...
September 09, 2013
June 8, 1971—an important day. Three black men, Ruffin Bridgeforth, Darius Gray, and Eugene Orr...

August 2013

August 11, 2013
"Not Knowing Beforehand the things which I should Do" It’s because I’m a Blair. My...

July 2013

July 14, 2013
Mel Hamilton is one of my heroes. He spoke on July 13th about his experience...

June 2013

June 27, 2013
There is no faith without imagination. One reason I choose Mormonism as my religious framework...

May 2013

May 17, 2013
My husband and I celebrate twenty-eight years of marriage today, May 17th. Bruce, as most...
May 10, 2013
I prepared my conference paper with a particular audience in mind—the one I know: Mormons,...

April 2013

April 29, 2013
He could be anyone. I might have made him up. Or this might be the...
April 25, 2013
  I wrote some of this in 2013, but it has additional relevance today, so...
April 22, 2013
Dear Ms. C: I received this in an email from a Congolese friend, Aime Mbuyi,...
April 17, 2013
If you don’t want to get involved with a charity to help a poverty-stricken child,...
April 15, 2013
This is the story of Len and Mary Hope, black converts to Mormonism. Len was...
April 11, 2013
Our courtship is slightly famous.  Bruce gives his students copies of the essay he wrote...
April 01, 2013
Dear Bishop: I just did a bad thing.  I didn't mean for it to get...

March 2013

March 27, 2013
In this post, I'm going to include something I wrote for By Common Consent in...
March 03, 2013
  It’s slightly old but very good news now.  The LDS Church has added to...
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