First Snow (upper case) is supposed to fall from heavenly clouds that spill feathers. It's supposed to descend as if…
James C. SchaapNovember 28, 2014
Only once in rural west Africa did I see anything like this--a man, a male, at the community well--and this…
James C. SchaapOctober 31, 2014
It is no more, but for a 100 years in Zuni there was only one “big house.” To say it…
James C. SchaapOctober 17, 2014
What I can't help but notice, almost daily, is that I'm running low on holy water. Truth is, this Protestant…
James C. SchaapOctober 3, 2014
Dowa Yalanne is the kind of place that really deserves the word monumental. There it stands like a momentary eruption…
James C. SchaapSeptember 19, 2014
Henry Whipple was one of the first students. Don't be fooled--not the Henry Whipple, the famous Minnesota missionary who, in 1862, pleaded with…
James C. SchaapSeptember 5, 2014
Count me among the millions of those who watched the agony of Kunte Kinte a half-century ago and were deeply,…
James C. SchaapAugust 22, 2014
It may well have been the very first time I used a camera for something other than family pics, an…
James C. SchaapAugust 8, 2014
He came along in my life when I needed him, even though I didn't know I did. I wanted to…
James C. SchaapJuly 25, 2014
