By Ryan McIlvain Ryan McIlvain is the author of Elders (2013) and The Radicals (2018). A former Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford, McIlvain has taught writing and literature at Rutgers, Stanford, and USC. Dad came home that afternoon from a last-minute grocery run, honking the horn from the driveway. I’d just …
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Mormonism and an Aesthetic Sense of Life
By Robert C. Hunsaker HOW TO LIVE—and live well—is a perennial problem. Our personal style of living—our sense of life—corresponds directly to general life satisfaction, or the lack thereof. As Carlisle Hunsaker puts it: A sense of life is either one of our most precious possessions, or the source of our private hell. …
Living on the Edge
By M. E. Or right-click here to download the audio file: Living on the Edge THE FIRST TIME MY oldest child made a frantic telephone call to me occurred on a crisp autumn afternoon when he was thirteen. I sat in a row of parents watching my daughter chase a soccer ball …