Stuff in the Basement

He was greatly to be feared--to some, at least. Not me. For reasons known only to him he liked me, although like is not a word that slipp...

“. . .they are like the new grass of the morning— though in the morning it springs up new,  by evening it is dry and withered.” ...

Once John Brown's body was "a'moulderin' in the grave," he became a myth, and mythically he was, for sure, a hero...

We're not meticulous, but all summer we've been driven. We've got weeds out back, and the truth is, I don't even know th...

There are no cars, so people walk to the doctor's office, and, often as not, his or her office has something akin to a mud floor. P...

James Martin Gray Blasts from the past occur almost weekly at the little church we sometimes attend. The hymnal looks new, but what...

Jane is as precious as anyone I know, a young mom with a cute kid who's got a dog, a special dog, because he's a special little b...

“ You sweep men away in the sleep of death;. . .” Psalm 90:5 To me this line from Psalm 90 is all about Kenneth Lay, the disgraced ...

I didn't find him yesterday. I knew I  wouldn't, but somewhere on-line I'd read that the Rev. Samuel Hinman, missionary to th...

I'm no Thoreau. Besides, I came into this outdoors stuff only at retirement, when for the first time in my life I have time for thing...

What was supposed to happen at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, October 16, 1859, was a full-blown slave rebellion. That was the design and purp...

The only thing I knew was that she didn't look Jewish, but what did I know? Not much. She was blonde and stunning--not necessarily be...

Don't be fooled. After months of our persistent, dedicated nursing, there may well be more color in the garden right now than there ...