Stuff in the Basement

On some balmy early fall days out here it’s not hard to believe that we are not where we are.   Warm southern breezes sweep all the wa...

This is my first book, as in, the very first book that ever belonged to me and me alone. I'm not the only one who has it, but this ...

“the ungodly are not so. . ." Psalm 1 While it’s never particularly difficult for believers to remember that scripture is holy...

Defining God is tricky business. Think not? Read a few pages of human history.  Few of our forbearers  or  our contemporaries, clothed as...

Diet and Hein What did I know? N ext to nothing really--next to nothing about what I was actually doing. I'd spoken to her on a whim...

Diet Eman, U. S. Holocaust Museum I find it amazing that it never dawned on me that I couldn't do it.  I'd been so taken wit...

The prairie grass was tall, very tall, as far as the eye could see back then, an immense, shaggy hide over the slowly rising hills of Sio...

For cutting wood he has four powerful incisor teeth, two in each jaw, deeply planted, and curved in form, the upper ones being something ...

“As the deer pants for streams of water,  so my soul pants for you, O God.” Psalm 42  I used to bale hay. Just about every memory hayi...

The pictures are from nine years ago, this time of year, a windy morning somewhere east of Canton, SD, mostly. When, about then, I posted...

You got to hunt. It's tucked away a ways. It's been there for nigh unto forty years, but it's there, a...

[Yesterday was Mother's Teresa's birthday. One early morning, maybe ten years ago, I picked up her biography from a retrea...

Josh Harris has cameo role in my last novel, Looking for Dawn , when a dad named Scotty picks up a book his daughter is reading only to d...

“ The trees of the LORD are well watered,  the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.” Psalm 104:16 Up and down the broad shoulders o...