Stuff in the Basement

Jelle (yell'-a) Pelmulder was the founding father we'd all love to claim. He was one of the four adventurers who loaded themselves a...

He was a little man with a huge broom beard, a sort of wispy-looking gent, white hair, lots of it all around. His name was Henry Wadsworth L...

  But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight; they flowed over the mountains, they went down into ...

And so, now, the world turns. What began as a weakling plant amid a thousand others on temporary shelves in a tent thrown up purposely for t...

In the community, just exactly what happened in the middle of the 17th century, about the time of the Mayflower, is barely remembered. Vario...

 We waited in a grocery store line behind a couple whose dress suggested some kind of tribal affiliation I didn't recognize or understan...

  It was a perfect night for outdoor theater, and the fare couldn't have been more fitting-- A Midsummer Night's Dream , Shakespeare...

A study published in 2010 found that parents in the U.S. are about twice as likely to be in a contentious relationship with their adult chi...

Okay, tell you what--let's start here: it ain't going to happen. The man here celebrated (why don't we call him the MHC) simpl...

It might be fanciful. No one who was there was alive when the book was written, but let's just assume that the writer did her homework a...

Indigenous Alaskans Sea Lions (look closely) Generic Alaskan landscape Generic Alaskan landscape (2) Alaska's state bird--from the pigeo...

It's little more than a roadside stop, and, unfortunately for us, it was mostly closed up when we stopped--the gift shop and church at l...

They who dwell in the ends of the earth  stand in awe of your signs; You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy. Psalm 65:8 Just exactly...

Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.   Psalm 25 Whenever I mow a certain pa...

 On vacation, "north to Alaska." If I can, I'll send some pix!

  It's formidable but obscure, prominent but hidden, memorable, but somehow forgettable--much ado about very little maybe. Most of Sioux...

“clear thou me from hidden faults” Psalm 19:12 Whenever I mow a certain patch of grass in my backyard, thirty feet west of our back door, an...

  The "Five Civilized Tribes" on the Trail of Tears weren't dressed in breech cloths. Some wore suits and dresses. They'd ...