Stuff in the Basement

I'm the proud owner of multiple Kindles actually. I got a pioneer way back when, and I use it when I travel because it's far more...

Okay, I know it's not that big of a deal, or that it's going to affect me greatly for what years the Lord in his mercy ultimately a...

Flatly stated, it's not been a good year for organized religion. First in May, then again in November, the Pew Research Center annou...

It's what I saw yesterday, three times, just out back, but not who. Sadly, this is not a picture I took; I wish it was. This particula...

“ How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty!” Psalm 84:1 It’s silly to make the argument—there were countless other factor...

Way back in this bizarre election cycle, I told myself that my Republican neighbors here in the county could possibly gather enough oom-pa...

Somewhere back in this blog's archives, I'm quite sure I told a story about my grandson, who was a kindergartner in 2008, a little...

“This is not a place of fear in here. The fear is out there. We know that God’s hand is in this. Whatever happens, we know that it’s going...

We built a house. Unlike a ton of people, we never really dreamed about doing that, never had a dream house, per se. I still find it hard...

I'm told the male kestrel is grayish blue, even orange-looking, which means the determined hunter who entertained our whole family so...

“ You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.” Psalm 77:20 Some years, my son and I ran into a man who asked...

I stepped into the world of Kirstin Valdez Quade somewhere close to the beginning of Lent. Couldn't have been a better time really, al...

Because it's really tough to miss his music, just about anyone who's ever gone to church knows Isaac Watts. Those who know such t...

Once upon a time we had a barn in our backyard, a barn that featured an honest-to-goodness carriage stall, complete with manger. When we ...

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end...

Primary Renauds is a condition medical professionals say has no internal cause. It effects the extremities, primarily hands and feet, and...