Letting Go

December 6, 2019

On this late autumn day, the elms and oaks around my house seem determined to let go of all the leaves that have died on their limbs. Everywhere I look there is a letting go. The sky has let go of blue and allowed itself to be covered with a thick mantle of gray. I […]

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A Sense of Place

July 14, 2019

[Excerpt from the Virginia Sorensen Lecture — BYU 2019 Symposium on Books for Young Readers] One of the things I love the most about creating young adult characters is that readers accept the fact that they will grow as human beings — which, when you think about it, is not always something that is acceptable […]

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Growing Old

June 8, 2019

When I retired from practicing law three years ago, one of the things I proposed to do was write in this journal on a more regular basis. Now, looking at the small number of entries, I wonder what happened to my early resolve. I have continued my life-long practice of writing every morning in my […]

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