You've heard, of course, the oddities, like the dictionary and the Bible, but what made the news this week was…
James C. SchaapApril 19, 2024
Just so happened to sit on a folding chair set up directly beneath the basket on the north end of…
James C. SchaapMarch 22, 2024
In a sunny sky especially, the huge sandstone cutbanks along the Missouri can be perfectly stunning. To stumble on them…
James C. SchaapMarch 8, 2024
Seems to me you have to cut LBJ some slack here. The man didn't ask to be President. Didn't run…
James C. SchaapFebruary 9, 2024
For years I've been told by friends I trust that I needed to read An Interrupted Life, by Etty Hillesum, who was…
James C. SchaapJanuary 26, 2024
Exactly 136 years ago today, a monster arose on the northern plains just as country school kids were about to…
James C. SchaapJanuary 12, 2024
The State of Minnesota wants a half-section of land in Murray County to become once again what it was 200…
James C. SchaapDecember 26, 2023
There was a lull. No one would have said the sudden silence was anywhere near the peace-on-earth promise of Christmas,…
James C. SchaapDecember 15, 2023
The church was packed. Mom would have liked that. And all five "first ladies" were in attendance--she would have liked…
James C. SchaapDecember 1, 2023
