Drunk guys who may have ‘made mistakes’ nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not. Compounding
[T]his is a bad thing that’s going on, she told Moore, and we all need to do something to try to fix it. On
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the co...
When this casuistry came to light,
When Debbie was fourteen, she felt impressed by the Lord to marry Ray Blackmore, the community leader. Debbie asked her father to share her divine impression with Prophet LeRoy Johnson, who would peri...
When Alex left for Alaska, Franz remembers, I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learne...
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.… We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the mult...
Walter Mittys with Everest dreams need to bear in mind that when things go wrong up in the Death Zone--and sooner or later they always do--the strongest guides in the world may be powerless to save a...
Unfortunately, the sort of individual who is programmed to ignore personal distress and keep pushing for the top is frequently programmed to disregard signs of grave and imminent danger as well. This...
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot bear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and eve...
There is an overwhelming inclination to keep the unsavory particulars hidden from public view, to pretend the calamity never occurred. Thus it has always been, and probably always will be. As Aeschylu...
The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith--still the religion's focal personage-- married at least thirty-th...
The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway. And in doing so I was a party to the death of good people, which is something that is apt to remain on my conscience for a very long t...
The eight-man expedition was pinned down in a ferocious blizzard high on K2, waiting to make an assault on the summit, when a team member named Art Gilkey developed thrombophlebitis, a life-threatenin...
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it.
The LDS Church has annual revenues estimated at more than $6 billion, and it is currently the largest employer in the state of Utah.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, The Wit of Porportuk.
It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rug...
Invece di raccogliere dei ricordi personali, Viesturs si sedette vicino a Fischer, lungo la discesa, trascorrendo qualche minuto da solo con lui. Ehi, Scott, come te la passi? chiese tristemente Ed al...