Stuff in the Basement

“By them is your servant warned;  in keeping them there is great rewards.” Psalm 19:12 When I look back on my life it seems as i...

Just a few days after his twelfth birthday, the kid got sent up to reform school because all too often things that were there a minute-or-so...

I was up in front of the classroom, explaining something--I've long ago forgotten what--when a story from my own past occurred to me, a ...

We can laugh at this poem yet-- yet being an almost hidden but quite crucial w0rd because for now, at least, the poem is funny, not because ...

  On the Sabbath too. This fine feathered friend, an American kestral, handsome as the day is long, flew into our downstairs window when the...

It's an outing I gladly countenance, which is not to say my opinion is worth much in the whole matter. My daughter's passion for mus...

The earth is full of your creatures.   There is the sea, vast and spacious,  teeming with creatures beyond number— living things both large ...

When the county spread blacktop on the road west of town, one farmer held out. “That cottonwood is too close to the roadbed,” the boss told ...

  1. He's a believer today , in great part, because once upon a time a missionary, a white man, convinced this believer's father to ...

Last weekend, at the county Democratic convention, one woman, a long-time party regular, motioned to drop one of the party's "princ...

It's difficult to imagine any reader out there who has five minutes to listen to Psalm 32, but go ahead and click on the above--it's...

Sunday night's sort of loosey-goosey around here--grab what you makes you salivate, cook it up or spoon it out or spread it--no rituals,...

  “Day unto day they pour forth speech;  night after night they display knowledge.” Psalm 19:2 In Psalm 19, and in this verse particularly, ...

This is a tale of two governors, two Republicans, two conservative Republican governors, both of them besieged by a constituency with fear i...

  They're making it. Fruit trees and bushes are growing up all over the homestead. A solid sod house stands behind them, a home to be pr...

Michael O'Keefe and OCU Michael O'Keefe taught graphic design at Oklahoma Christian University for 41 years. No more. Less than a mo...

(continued from yesterday)  It's time, she tells herself, to go theological herself, and press the pedal to the metal. "Okay,"...