Stuff in the Basement

Strangely enough, Dante loved the church's teaching--his  Divine Comedy follows just about everything he'd learned; but th...

Uncle Edgar and his brother-in-law Harry Dirkse Almost a year passed before she heard anything at all from her brother. Not that she did...

"Let the light of your face shine on us, O Lord." Psalm 4:6 Like all of us, Moses’s brother Aaron stumbled through ...

There's some significant antecedent action that makes all the difference here. These young folks, Apollo (t he Apollo) and Daphne we...

One of my favorite people of all time, the Rev. Bernard J. Haan, founding president of the college where I’ve taught for thirty years, was...

Sacrifice thank offerings to God,  fulfill your vows to the Most High,  and call upon me in the day of trouble;  I will delive...

The end  of the story ,a kind of beginning. ____________________________________ He backhanded the window to his parents' be...

When Darren leaves, he takes off north to the family cottage. The story I knew that prompted this whole exercise was told me by a friend...

Ben Warren says not to outrun him on the hand-off of the relay. Ben Warren says he never has much juice left when he's finished '...

Darren Nikkles has been haunted by what happened the weekend before--and by his mother's accusations. He's been awaiting his tur...

(cont.) Mom and Darren are in the heart of a very important talk. ______________________________________________ "She got raped...

There is no voice or language where that voice is not heard. Psalm 19 “Israel’s singer of songs”—that’s what old King David called hi...

Mom and son talk. __________________  "We'll talk about it later," Mom says, opening the dishwasher. "You ...

Mom and the kids left Shorewood when her husband did, left for small-town America, where she hoped maybe all three of them could get...

Long ago, I threw the discus. For a kid in a little high school, I wasn't half bad--went twice to state, once got sixth. Other than ...