Stuff in the Basement

A few meetings scratched. No toilet paper--we're loaded anyway if you need a roll. No hamburger, but we buy quarters. On Monday, Fare...

What Keo remembers is lines of people outside his father's door, each of them awaiting some a special blessing. His father, he says,...

Double brat, Charcoal Inn, Sheboygan What's cute, but futile is how some foreigners try to make hard rolls. You can buy them most an...

I don't remember it ever happening before out here in the country. It must have. It's minus-12 degrees right now, maybe for t...

In another day and another time, the buildings crowded on the block made all kinds of sense. The school's own precious history makes ...

The Sioux people before European immigration We owe the word, I'm told, to Frederick Manfred, who claimed--in my hearing, in fact--...

I tan easily. What can I say? Lots of my friends with pinker skin have trotted off to the scalpel time and time again. Some make schedu...

The young mom has family in our church, so when the accident happened, the seriousness of that young mom's injuries, and those of her...

I’m not sure where she found them, but leave it to my granddaughter to discover things in our house, things she can use or would like to. ...

I know it's awkward of me to say it, but I have had far more than my share of successes as a performer in my three-score-and-ten. Aft...

Nothing really to commend the place. A farm pond, little more; wind--loads of it; and just a touch of fall. Some lucky folks, yesterday, ...

Out in the middle of nowhere, the old white frame building is all that remains of a heart-felt dream that, as an answer to prayer, opened...

It's purple. Well, these days, some twenty years of Dakota sun later, St. Charles Church may well look a little pink; but originally i...

It's an age-old ritual: before worship, the consistory meets to pray for what is about to happen, to pass along whatever news is cur...

I don't know how exactly--or who--told me I had to read Beloved . I do remember having a single copy of three Toni Morrison novels--...