Stuff in the Basement

This wonderfully haunting painting greets visitors at the entrance to Vesterheim: the National Norwegian Museum and Heritage Center in De...

Honestly, I hesitate to say anything about Donald Trump because there's no end to the words that have been said and written. When he b...

[Want my advice on reading this?--go to the bottom and start the music, then read through the post] Could have been different. Coul...

“For the LORD God is a sun. . .” Psalm 84:11 It’s difficult, at least for me, to think of the sun as an inanimate object—like a stone...

All of this starts with an ancient mansion on the edge of town, three floors huge, tall doric pillars perfectly stationed over an elegant...

Much has been made this campaign season of what some pundits call "the death of the religious right." Here's how the story ...

The knickered man in this old photo looks sheepish, as well he should. On the other hand, the two women, out front, look more than a litt...

Rep. Katie Elmers (R-NC) is in great trouble apparently. The titanium-ribbed conservative Tea Party favorite came into Congress vowing to...

Amazing, isn't it, that the entire phenomena began with some kid from Louisville stealing a bike and the bike-less kid getting so mad ...

“Better is one day in your courts  than a thousand elsewhere;. . .” Psalm 84:10 In Los Angeles, more than a century ago, when...

Pity Sioux Center. The party for their long-awaited 125th birthday celebration was thoughtlessly crashed by early summer storms whose...

Seriously, it was a real team effort.  People use that phrase all the time, mostly because they mean it, and so do I. This magazine/bo...

I shouldn't be surprised, I guess, that the world just outside my window plays such a major role in each of the three novels I (and o...

T. S. Eliot The study of T. S. Eliot is now decades behind me, fifty or sixty years, most of a lifetime, and I'm not at all bo...