Stuff in the Basement

Just in case you missed it, here's a poem from Writer's Almanac of last week, a poem I found absolutely joyful.  An Apology for Usin...

Just one of the great joys of E.B. White's classic personal narrative, "Once more to the Woods," is this sense he feels, retur...

The haven't changed, of course. it would take behomoth earth-movers to rid the landscape of these great chunks of mountains, not that we...

  According to The Christian Century, Axios reports that despite the images of college kids partying away, not wearing masks or social dist...

“Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion,  for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.” Isaiah 12:6  There’s something so elemental ...

We're going again--up north, next week. After a hiatus of a half-dozen years--we now live sort of "out in the country already,...

On a single visit to Lemmon, South Dakota, you can see the whole world. Seriously. You want joy? Once a summer they put a tent up in Lemmon—...

I turned it off.  I cringed at the outset, when it was clear that Trump brought a despicable strategy to the game, something called chaos. I...

"Before we begin, I'd just like to begin with a land acknowledgement," she said, "acknowledging the indigenous people who...

Be careful you do not start  with any unnecessary baggage.  The road at present is strewed with nearly everything  f rom a steam kettle to a...

Sabbath; came fifteen miles and camped at a fine place, with plenty of good grass  for our weary animals.  It is August 6th, 1836, and the n...

In 15 years of blogging I don't know that I've ever done what I did yesterday--put up the url of an essay I'd read, no comments ...

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She made a scene, all right? She didn't have to--she could have simply got up and left when told to, but she didn't. She refused. Sh...

The story goes that when the Hulsts came to Dordt College in the early Sixties, they couldn't help be awed by the tight-corset of pietis...

  I don't know that I've ever been to the Lower Chesapeake Bay, and I never was a lifeguard, so no one ever told me the different wa...

  To this you were called,  because Christ suffered for you,  leaving you an example,  that you should foll ow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:21  A...