It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love.
Vegas represents the idea of America I had as a kid. The big cars, the pretty girls; everything is possible in Vegas.
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.
If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.
The dirty laundry of our confessed sin belongs in the Lord’s laundry hamper; for there He will toss them like mismatched socks as far as the east is from the west.
The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.
If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.
Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
