Stuff in the Basement

In the barest of outlines, their getting together seems, at best, a marriage of convenience. The husband, Mr. Daniel Freeman, way out...

Thankfully, we have Willa Cather and a score of other writers who left behind impressions of a world that's gone now, a world like ...

Look, I'm not complaining. No one is.  Ask any Joe or Jolene right now, and you'll get the same sweet answer--this fall has been...

As someone who never loved the Clintons but certainly didn't hate them, I wondered where hardcore Hillary haters picked up their ammo...

Clear as a friend's heart, 'twas, and seeming cool-- A crystal bowl whence skyey deeps looked up. So might a god set down his ...

“ May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us;. . .” Psalm 90: 17a One of my grandmother’s older sister, I’m told, had had a v...

I suppose "9/11" has already edged out "11/11" among our memorable national numerical icons, but I'm forever impr...

What's altogether possible is that it's not a great novel. What makes me believe I can write a novel good enough to be published ...

Sioux Center, Iowa (CNN)Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someo...

There was nothing in front of me, really, an emptiness that I would not have acknowledged back then, but recognize today. I didn't ha...

Whether or not I like it, I've arrived at the age where it's possible to attend two visitations for the dead within an hour, as I...

“ May your deeds be shown to your servants,  your splendor to their children.” Psalm 90:16 Great-Grandpa Hemkes must have been ...

At 97 years old, he is, after a fashion, frozen in time. What he loves most, or so it seems to his son-in-law, is getting out of the Hom...