Stuff in the Basement

  I don’t know what it was like to live in hiding like the Otto Frank family, hidden from sight and all senses, secreted there on a street i...

I'm quite sure I've said this before, but getting myself shut up in a rehab hospital in October had some wonderful blessings--just o...

  “The voice of the Lord is powerful;  the voice of the Lord is majestic.”   I have wonderfully sincere Christian friends who frequently u...

"He's back." Or so said an ex-cousin-in-law on her FB page.  No one second-guesses the identity of who was "back." Y...

  To say he came out of poverty would be a stretch. His family wasn't poor, the neighborhood had standing and the house had character. H...

  The voice of the Lord is over the waters;  the God of glory thunders,  the Lord thunders over the mighty waters. Psalm 29:3   I was born...

This is fiction,  a story composed of several incidents  woven into a single narrative. *   ~   *   ~   * She'd drawn night duty, or ask...

  In a way, all that the weaponry rolling over the border was unexpected. The Dutch had spent the First World War out of the fray, neutral a...

  “Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name”   It is not beyond me to understand what David the poet is demanding here—and it is so for...

  We considered ourselves veterans. We'd been through four flooding Floyds and really never got taken out of the game, never suffered at...

Coventry, England, a city of 250,00 in the West Midlands, boasted significant industrial power when the Europe went to war in 1940, industri...

 “Ascribe to the Lord, mighty ones,  ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.” vs. 1 Mighty , I’m guessing, is a word like wealthy , a word p...

An AFO is a mechanism which sounds vaguely military and therefore more than a little scary. Trust me, it's not scary, but it's part ...

Frost is on the pumpkin; leaves are falling; I'm in a home. Happy New Year! Could hardly be worse than the past. * I wasn't thrilled...

  It's an odd thing, all right. American evangelical Christians tossed Jimmy Carter like an old dishrag after his first term and took a ...