Stuff in the Basement

For reasons that likely have to do with desired ends, the Oregon Trail has a more wholesome reputation than its southern sidekick, the Sa...

The Grandpa, Baba, in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth," a story from a collection of the same name, visits his dau...

The president can turn the tables and dominate the dialogue by ordering the indictment of [James] Clapper, [John] Brennan, [Susan] Rice ...

Okay, at least the man in the ditch in the famous New Testament parable, put upon by robbers says the gospel of Luke, wasn't alone. Wh...

Just exactly how it showed up is a mystery. There it lay, on the couch, dog-eared, not ancient, just old-- The Beauty of the Lord , by Re...

“ The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life;. . .” Psalm 121 My father was an elder in the church, a wat...

You can't help but feel a little sorry for daisies, so much a victim of their commonness. Because there are so many, and because they...

The Blue Curtain by Henry Matisse When it comes to visual art, I'm afraid I'll have to resort to the old maxim: beauty is, very ...

He wasn't, you might say, thinking straight. He was foggy, even becoming a shade paranoid.  Three times he complained about the nur...

“. . .the sun will not harm you by day,  nor the moon by night.” Psalm 121:5 It may be hard to believe but the kid’s classic,  Go...

Writers—like artists of other mediums—often say that no novel or short story is really ever finished until it’s read. As an old novelist ...

H. Bosch, The Extraction of the Stone of Madness and Folly The word lobotomy strikes terror in the heart of most of us today, despite th...

It had been two years since I'd lived anywhere close, but Orange City was her hometown. That we would be married there was beyond questi...

(continued from yesterday) When finally that bat found a roost on a beam, he hung there, wings tucked, upside down, like a fat blot of ta...

On old story from Reformed Worship, many moons ago, describing an event that lots and people remember in a lots and lots of churches. Ju...

“ He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber;  indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slum...