Maybe sometimes the best we can hope for is that the songs stuck in our heads are not complete garbage.

In September 1999 I attended a “Writing from the Land” workshop sponsored by the Entrada Institute, the first workshop I’d been to in almost 20 years.  At the time, I was finishing up my novel The Pictograph Murders and decided to take Levi Peterson’s fiction class to help with that process.  At one point Levi [...]

I watched a Gilmore Girls rerun (original air date: January 20, 2004) with my wife tonight. GG is no Northern Exposure, of course. But it is (perhaps was before the present season) good for consistently clever dialog. The following is certainly not the first GG reference to Mormonism. But, as a Mormon blogger, it is [...]

A few nights ago I took my kids to a local storytelling festival.  The storytellers were all Native Americans or had Native American heritage and the stories they told were trickster stories — Coyote stories, etc. — that traditionally may be told only during the winter months.