Ode to Provo City(Provo you make me weep) Have you ever felt tied up, unableto breathe comfortably?This city makes me feel that way,Todos los diasHow dare you make my skin a curse?Sin considerar me persona,How dare you offer me a goldengoblet?Al borrar mi cultura,Have you seen our elders, braidstoriesin their long jet black hair? YetContinue reading “Laura Ruiz-Ortega: Ode to Provo City”
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Genuine: the poetry of single-mother, Mary Walker
Mary Walker has an infectious laugh and a natural talent for putting people at ease. She is a 29-year-old single mother living in South Provo with a dog, a cat, and her two young daughters—Summer, 3, and EJ, 5. She grew up, the daughter of a white father and a Filipino mother, in what sheContinue reading “Genuine: the poetry of single-mother, Mary Walker”
Housing a Community: Marianne Hales shares her tale of a quilting club
All good family’s (houses)are (not) похож MaryAnn Taylor The story of the Little House Quilting Club (LHQC) is a bittersweet work of art patchworked together with painstaking love. In addition to quilting, Marianne Hales is single-parenting two kids, Emily Laura and Micah, caring for her aging parents, teaching college courses, and courageously battling Multiple Sclerosis. ItContinue reading “Housing a Community: Marianne Hales shares her tale of a quilting club”
Third & Forthcoming
Matthew 25:40 What if we’ve got it all wrong and there isno Second Coming, but instead He comes again and again; like an Indian Brahman, the Dalai Lama, or a porn star great at their job? What if every time He returns to us, we crucify him again? A Jew in 1940s Germany, with the audacity to believe hisContinue reading “Third & Forthcoming”
South Provo Prophet 