Stuff in the Basement

Some people may be accustomed to scarfing down such huge platefuls of turkey and stuffing in the middle of the day, but I'm not one of t...

For the record, these days I have no idea what my rear end looks like. At home, we've got at least one full-length mirror, but I don...

Whatever the cause, we  needed a sump pump--new house, too dang much rain, walk-out basement--we needed a sump pump. But where to buy one--...

  She’d told me about the school she’d attended as a little girl, almost ninety years before. She spoke of the humiliation of losing, so qui...

“Let the light of your face shine upon us, Lord”   Like all of us, Moses’s brother Aaron stumbled through a life far less than perfect. Be...

There's no accounting to taste. Just exactly why it is some people adore Terry Redlin's perfectly darling paintings is unfathomable ...

  aftermath of flooding just off our land “Many are asking, ‘Who can show us any good?’” As we’ve said before, the very first wo...

“Before my addiction, I used to love rock climbing,” so says, James Browning, one of the tough Appalachian guys Arlie Russell Hochschild int...

“Many are asking, ‘Who can show us any good?’” As we’ve said before, the very first word of the very first Psalm is the life’s wish of ...

  There are so many nurses, so many aides, so many cnas and techs, that remembering names is impossible. She had some miles on her, this one...

“Offer right sacrifices and trust in the Lord.” My wife and I have developed our own language.   If I say—as I did last night—that tonight...

  “. . .search your hearts and be silent.”   Flannery O’Connor, I remember reading, one of the finest and most well-known writers of the 2...

Sometime last week--feels like last year--I came to the point where I'd heard them so often I could narrate MSNBC's story lines befo...

I honestly don't know when or whether  I shall return to this page, so dutifully fulfilled for so darn long, but I owe long-time readers...

  “ when you are on your beds, search your hearts. . .” Although many have found their way to new life by way of faith, although a personal...

If you watched much of the Democratic National Convention for the last few nights, I'm guessing you heard the name of someone likely ref...