Stuff in the Basement

If you promise not to tell a soul, I've got a book out from the local library, a book that's painfully overdue. It's a wonderful...

In case you missed it, last week was a textbook in the great American divides. If as a nation, we're coming apart, our stretched-to-brea...

I can't help but wonder how she'd look in the old habit, a wardrobe she dropped decades ago already, some solidly starched cap-and-g...

He wrote me a note that told me I really ought to go out to the Little Sioux River and take a hike up a hill because there was a garden of p...

Somewhere in Nebraska. Somewhere south of here. Somewhere in the eastern part of the state--that's about it. I don't remember where ...

  Sorry I missed you, but last night and then again this morning, I spent some time in the emergency rooms in the Orange City Hospital. Pain...

It's just hard to believe, really.  The Vann Mansion stands out there in the middle of the country, up high on a hill so the view all ar...

No matter how you mark it, today is a big day. Never before in the history of this nation has the law arraigned a President, sitting or not ...

Seems to me that we should start here: he calls himself an evangelical Christian, is a graduate of Bob Jones University, and each Sunday mor...

  “Who knows the power of your anger?  For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.”         I’m going to go to make a general...

  If I'm not mistaken--and I could be--it was a civics class, fifth hour, just after lunch when the announcement came over the squawk bo...

Doesn't have to be. It was T. S. Eliot who sounded the alarm: "April is the cruelest month," and he had his reasons--not quite...

Iowa writer, Ruth Suckow Last night, Stephanie Ruhle led off news commentary on The 11th Hour with three guests, two reporters and a vetera...