Stuff in the Basement

Thursday, October 01, 2026

Top Ten Stuff*

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My stenosis makes a night like this an impossibility, sadly enough. This is an old one, but it makes my heart swell just to remember. ______...
Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Broken Kettle dawn--2003

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For years, I've been writing short essays for a local NPR station in Sioux City. It's been great for me and maybe for them as well. ...
Monday, September 28, 2026

Wild West Trans

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Look. If what she wore was the standard wardrobe of the hundreds of fighting men in General Crook's huge expedition in the Powder River ...
Sunday, September 27, 2026

Sunday Morning Meds from Psalm 32

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  “I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord’ —and you forgave the guilt of my sin.” I never committed adultery—per se. I gue...
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Friday, September 25, 2026

A crumby picture

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  No matter how you look at it, it's not a good picture. Like most all of its contemporaries, it's taken with something akin to a Ko...
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Thursday, September 24, 2026

The powerful impact of nature on your health*

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How time spent in nature can improve your health The average adult spends more than 90 precent of their day inside, away from nature, and th...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

The Restless Traveler ii

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Continued from yesterday, a short essay attributed to me but long ago out of my computer. A Canadian grad student studying the occupation of...
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Monday, September 21, 2026

"The Restless Traveler"

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A grad student in Alberta sent me a note to ask if I could tell him where a little essay had appeared so he could include it in a bibliograp...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

Sunday Morning Meds from Psalm 32

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  “Then I acknowledged my sin to you  and did not cover up my iniquity.” A woman came up to me at a conference and told me how much she’d en...
Friday, September 18, 2026

September 2009, McNally, IA

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Thursday, September 17, 2026

Warriors, 1972

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Once upon a time, I had a copy of this high school annual--owned it, in fact, considered it one of my proud possessions because it legitimiz...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

A Holy Place

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  If I wouldn't have had a guide, if I wouldn't have known ahead of time that the Sioux quartzite out there was full of ancient ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

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  I'm not sure why B is drying herself off in this illustration; she's clearly fully clothed. I'd guess this image is Sunday Sch...
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Monday, September 14, 2026

A little more R-rated biblical storytelling

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Don't know if you noticed, but yesterday after putting in the usual "Sunday Med" on this blog, I looked around for a suitable ...
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