Stuff in the Basement

The ad is dated-- Time magazine, sometime in 1971 or so, I think. But it's a classic. If you look closely at the frosty glass, you...

Even before the Rebs fired on Fort Sumter, there were two distinct motivations for the Feds to go to war. One reason was slavery--the ...

Maybe it's because the guy embodies what he testifies--I don't know. Maybe it's just the music, a scintillating mix of Native...

“ He wraps himself in light as with a garment;  he stretches out the heavens like a tent. . .” Psalm 104:2 Not long ago, my stude...

The snow was 48 hours old, but still clean and pristine in the shafts of a  luminescent  sun this morning, the sky as clear as the snowfield...

Someone's happy dalmatian showed up on TV last night, and I couldn't help think that maybe a dalmatian is what we need. Ever sin...

William Brooks Close "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your...

The guy's name is Jestin Coler. He voted for Hillary. But he and his buddies haul in some extra dough by a game they've create...

Some psychologists want to drop the last initial in PTSD. They claim that to call PTSD a "disorder" makes the condition appear ...

It was an unusual prayer request. Most all of the members of the little church up the road are steadily getting up there in age, so reque...

“ He wraps himself in light as with a garment; . . .” Psalm 104:2 I know when it came to me. I remember that morning well. I stil...

I don't want to think it was always this way, but maybe it was. I'm enough of a Calvinist to believe that even our fanciest duds ...

One can only imagine how annoyed white folks were on the bus that afternoon. After all, it was the end of another working day and nobody ...

Truth is--and I'm proud to say it--my wife's gift is somewhere in the mail. I'm way ahead-of -time on that one. And it's...

I don't mean this to sound like a "dance macabre," the old late-medieval allegory of death. I swear it wasn't. Don...