Stuff in the Basement

Sure. Who could guess it? An ordinary little pond a mile off the Missouri, for sure part of an old ox-bow. Undistinguished. Forgettable. Who...

So, in case you missed the latest, yesterday a judge formally denied a Trump request that notes and emails concerning the January 6th "...

One gaffe came to dominate analysis of the Republican win in the Virginia gubernatorial election. Terry McAuliffe, one heavily favored, miss...

It's a question I'd never really faced before my spouse was given the job, an odd but inescapable job whose detritus sits on our cou...

“Great is our Lord and mighty in power;  his understanding has no limit.” Psalm 147:5 I just emptied my trash. There were 300 ...

In the last month, Sen. Krysten Sinema couldn't make more news if she would romp into the Senate Chamber topless, which, given her style...

If you're a prairie kind of person, some ordinary flat-lander, and if you consider Iowa's rolling landscape as the very definition o...

  The mission was simple: go on out there and gather some shots of the longest river in America, the Missouri. What I'm working on is a ...

Francis La Flesche Click here to hear the recording. The indigenous singers in this bit of song were born at the time of the Civil War. I...

Mary and Joseph present Jesus at the temple. From the Stations of the Cross in a Native context in St. Paul's Catholic Church, Marty, SD...

  “Praise the LORD. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!” Psalm 147:1 I remember...

No one mentioned it, but the truth is that the meeting was definitely historic. As few as a couple of decades ago, a get-together between ch...

It's hard to believe it's gone, but I'll bet it is. For generations, American high school students read Stephen Crane' Red B...

No, it's not an easy read. Like the Book of Job, the novel is dark and often dreary and depressing. But then, so is its world, the world...

I'm guessing it was forty years ago now that Chaim Potok, a Jewish novelist who'd acquired quite a reputation among American evangel...