Stuff in the Basement

  I don't even know how long I've been at this. Years ago already, I thought to shore things up, so I went through years of Stuff in...

“Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?  Put your hope in God,  for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” In v...

Today, the end of the story. * In three weeks we'll be married, Shari and me, and I really believe I'm better off knowing what I do...

  "Light and Life" is maybe thirty years old, and, I think, unpublished. Why not? I think it was one of those stories that might h...

  Rev. Ellerbroek isn't a ball of fire, but Shari's parents like him--just like mine would--because basically he's conservative ...

A story for lent. In point of fact, Kenny Hays is not my brother-in-law--not by man's law or God's. He's only lived with my sist...

  My daughter seemed unwilling to believe her parents used to travel back and forth--western Iowa to eastern Wisconsin--on a two-lane road. ...

They're state champs. If they were a volleyball team--or buckets--they'd ride into town aboard the city fire department trucks, all ...

“Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” One ni...

In a work of fiction, it's almost impossible to make a character as supremely loveable as Nebraska's Willa Cather does with the grea...

Let's be clear about this. In Willa Cather's most beloved novel, My Antonia , a pure celebration of the beauty of the world of her ...

Let's do the numbers. Donald J. Trump won the Iowa Republican caucus going away, a landslide victory, 98 of the 99 counties, amassing a ...

This is a new thing. I knew my phone was touted as being able to shoot pictures at night, but I'd never really tried it. By the time dar...