Yesterday, my neighbor came by and dumped a scoop full of black dirt on what, someday, will be--we hope--our…
James C. SchaapJuly 10, 2014
There are two women in this story, two women and 125 years. One of them, this one, Renske, immigrated to…
James C. SchaapJune 13, 2014
He was, in a way, both a large part and a small part of the Allied Invasion of Normandy, June…
James C. SchaapMay 30, 2014
Two other mountain men stayed with him, and one of them, Jim Bridger, would become even more famous than he.…
James C. SchaapMay 16, 2014
Just a short chapter into Rudy and Shirley Nelson's richly furnished international thriller, The Risk of Returning, Ted Peterson, who calls…
James C. SchaapMay 2, 2014
A phone call from my mother years ago--I think I was in college--included other news, I'm sure, but what she…
James C. SchaapApril 18, 2014
Congratulations to Theresa Latini, blogger-extraordinaire, who gave birth to Eleanor Olivia on April 3! Please remember Theresa and Eleanor in…
James C. SchaapApril 10, 2014
The image I won't soon forget from Haiti's National Museum is a elaborately rigged ball and chain from the nation's…
James C. SchaapApril 4, 2014
It's not insignificant. Created in the late '20s, during the heyday of such memorials, Bryant Baker's Pioneer Woman stands formidably just off…
James C. SchaapMarch 21, 2014
