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Kristen Carson was born in Idaho. She has lived in Utah, Texas, Illinois and Pennsylvania. She currently resides near Indianapolis. She and her husband are the parents of four adult children. Carson's stories and articles have appeared in Chicago Parent, Indianapolis Monthly, and Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought.
22 11, 2020

Time Travel in Your Scriptures

By |2020-11-22T20:32:40-05:00November 22nd, 2020|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Here’s a book series that might float your boat: H.B. Moore’s Out of Jerusalem. It takes Nephi from your assigned-daily-scripture-reading pile and places him on your fun-time-reading pile. I tried the first volume, Of Goodly Parents. Moore’s thorough research makes Nephi and his scripture family come alive. We see him sweating on an ordinary workday in the vineyards. “His hands and feet were stained [...]

15 11, 2020

Americans Mad At Each Other

By |2020-11-15T18:56:24-05:00November 15th, 2020|good nonfiction|0 Comments

On Election Day 2020, I opened a new book and started reading. It was an ironic choice for that day, an account of when Americans felt bitterly towards their neighbors, angry enough burn them out of house and home. No, it wasn’t about Election Day 2016. Nope, not the Civil War, either. It was the Revolutionary War. In Liberty’s Exiles, author Maya Jasanoff gives [...]

8 11, 2020

Bow Ties Are My Favorite Pasta

By |2020-11-08T20:56:48-05:00November 8th, 2020|main dishes, pasta|0 Comments

I tried a book this week. Extremely funny take on four Millennials. I turned the e-pages carefully, suspecting I might have to give it up.  After all, these people grew up when sex has no more meaning that buying a street taco. Sure enough, the street tacos started flying, and blow-by-blow descriptions at that. Soooo, let's do a recipe, shall we? The thing about [...]

1 11, 2020

Staring Down the Grim Reaper

By |2020-11-01T19:23:54-05:00November 1st, 2020|good nonfiction|0 Comments

May none of us ever hear the dreaded words, “It’s cancer.” May the closest you ever come to it is opening up Nina Riggs’ Bright Hour, a memoir of the author’s battle with breast cancer, baldness, radiation machines, and Tumor Boards. “Right before all your hair falls out, it aches,” she writes. “Like a ponytail pulled back for too long. And even after it’s [...]

25 10, 2020

This is Anti-Humanity, Pt. 3: They’re Telling Us

By |2020-10-25T20:02:27-05:00October 25th, 2020|good nonfiction, reject post-modernism|0 Comments

Part 1: Eating the Fresh Catch Part 2: Fighting Back Sometimes a writer doesn’t go looking for his next project. It comes looking for him. This is what happened to Rod Dreher, a writer at The American Conservative. He received an anonymous phone call from a doctor whose news-watching parents, immigrants from Romania, followed the story of a pizza parlor in Indiana facing [...]

23 10, 2020

This is Anti-Humanity, Part 2: Fighting Back

By |2020-10-25T19:58:38-05:00October 23rd, 2020|reject post-modernism|0 Comments

In Part 1, we described the problem of post-modernism's advance. Today, we'll talk about pushing back. 1. Fix Your Mindset First, you need to square your shoulders and adopt the right attitude, much like what Victor Davis Hanson described on a recent television appearance. Recalling the deeply divided country of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, he says our president must respect sacrifices made generations ago [...]

22 10, 2020

This is Anti-Humanity: Part 1, Eating the Fresh Catch

By |2020-10-25T19:59:31-05:00October 22nd, 2020|reject post-modernism|1 Comment

My father was a smart fisherman. He never had the spare time to stand in a stream, outfitted in waders, tossing his line over the water. But he made friends with the fellows who did. Every so often, they came around, offering us some fresh-caught trout. Out came Mom’s skillet, the oil, the cornmeal. And we had a tasty supper. This was fish with [...]

18 10, 2020

Meet Your AirBnB Hostess

By |2020-10-18T18:37:24-05:00October 18th, 2020|good fiction|0 Comments

I don’t think you can be a bigger fan of AirBnB than I am. Vacations mean not only new roads, new restaurants, new photos in the camera, but playing house in somebody else’s totally clean and decorated home. My house is never all-the-way clean, just keep-up clean. And as for decorated, ha-ha, not my gift. I was in this blissful state just weeks ago, [...]

4 10, 2020

Those Young Adult Years

By |2020-10-04T19:57:37-05:00October 4th, 2020|good nonfiction|0 Comments

I do believe that ages 12 until 30 are the most write-able years of one’s life. Coming-of-age adventures never get old for readers. Exhibit A for my little theory is How Did You Get This Number?, a collection of essays by Sloane Crosley. Crosley is a child of the New York suburbs; also a child of the sexual revolution, living out the long adolescence [...]

27 09, 2020

Let’s Ask the Professor

By |2020-09-27T19:31:56-05:00September 27th, 2020|good nonfiction|0 Comments

We all know his faults. If you can’t figure them out on your own, late-night comics, the hosts on The View or your Facebook friends will enumerate them for you, punctuating it all with a good many exclamation points and some virtual flying spittle. Mormons who like Jeff Flake will question your decency if you support him. They must not have had a dad [...]

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