Stuff in the Basement

I'd seen her over there on the opposite side of the gym, a cheerleader, pretty as a picture, tall, even statuesque, leading her side of ...

 “I will counsel you and watch over you” Procreation may well be humanity’s major interest in any relationship between the sexes, the perpet...

Here's a stumper: what has Monona County, Iowa, to do with Edgar Allen Poe, the nightmare poet lurking in dusty old lit books?  "Po...

All things are the work of the Great Spirit.  We should know that he is in all things:  the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains,  ...

  And all of what's here is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Lou Van Dyk, a former teacher and colleague who was just about the lone Democ...

Fred and Audrey weren't there. As long as I remember, they lived first door west of us and walked to church like we did, coming in throu...

 A bit of wisdom from the Native world. All things in the world are two.  In our minds we are two--good and evil.  With our eyes we see two ...

That shiny imminence beneath the cloudbank out there is Lake Michigan. This battered and solitary pine stands prophetically just off the bea...

He blinked. You  have to have seen it because it was all over the news. He blinked. He called both the guv in Minnesota, as well as the mayo...

I never heard of Greg Bovino before yesterday, but his words yesterday established new records for degree of insanity. Bovino, it seems, is ...

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.” Not long ago I talked to a friend who has been a middle-school math teacher ...

It's that time of year when there's no seriously good reason for living here. At least the phone I own doesn't sport the tempera...

Just a word or two on Sioux Star Quilts. They are themselves traditional, which makes the pattern within of significant value to the communi...

 Basement is a bit pejorative, I guess, isn't it? A basement is mostly storage space, maybe ping-pong or even a snooker table; but if i...

In 1837 a caravan of covered wagons left Indiana for Iowa, which wasn’t Iowa at all back then, but still referred to as the Wisconsin Territ...

'Selah"   I’ve always been of the opinion that people who want to write—and recent surveys claim that nearly eighty percent of th...

  I hope the Great Heavenly Father,  who will look down upon us,  will give all the tribes His blessing,  that we may go forth in peace and ...

A gang of guys are playing Rook in the dorm. I'm among 'em. The jabbering makes the game secondary. Mostly, we're just talking. ...

 I'm a slow learner. It took me a couple of years to discover the bare, naked truth about photography--that it's all about light. Wh...