I suppose "9/11" has already edged out "11/11" among our memorable national numerical icons, but I'm forever imprinted with the…
James C. SchaapNovember 11, 2016
It was, at the time, just another feature of northwest Iowa culture, I thought, like talk about "a hundred weight,"…
James C. SchaapOctober 14, 2016
There is not one blade of grass. There is not one color in the world, That is not intended to…
James C. SchaapSeptember 30, 2016
"Now, boys, is our time for fun." That's what the hoity-toity artist said when he saw a herd of buffalo…
James C. SchaapSeptember 16, 2016
You know?--I really ought to print that line on a t-shirt: "to the great God, nothing is little." It belongs…
James C. SchaapSeptember 2, 2016
The sign out front claims this well-kept church on a hill just north of Flandreau is "The Oldest Continuously Used…
James C. SchaapAugust 19, 2016
When our kids were just kids, for a time at least the Schaaps--me mostly--toyed with the idea of keeping rabbits…
James C. SchaapAugust 5, 2016
You know?--I think I get at least something of what my representative in Washington was talking about. I mean, I…
James C. SchaapJuly 22, 2016
There's so much to this story that's old news, so much that's so awful yet so obscenely ordinary, that what…
James C. SchaapJuly 8, 2016
