Stuff in the Basement

For an anniversary in 2017, I chose a place in northern Missouri, not far from the river. I wanted to get to Independence, where the Oregon ...

It was somewhat unusual for him to come to me with his problems. I used to believe--and still do--that I would never make even a back seat i...

Big Bluestem. Used to be, there were far more of them than there are of us. Tall and awkward, it grew up every summer from a thick bundle of...

  “They have greatly oppressed me from my youth— let Israel say— they have greatly oppressed me from my youth  but they have not gained the...

Twenty years ago--August, 2004--I was fooling around with photographs, doing things that I never did before with what was, at least for me, ...

You'll find it just east of the Mississippi, next door to Dubuque. The rolling hills all around hide the place, so when you drop down in...

  Tomorrow evening, Tuesday, August 12, at the Dutch American Heritage Museum, Orange City, Iowa, board member Abby Sitzman will present all...