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James C. Schaap

James Calvin Schaap is a retired English prof who has been something of a writer for most of the last 40 years. His latest work, a novel, Looking for Dawn, set in reservation country, is the story of two young women joined by their parents' mutual brokenness and, finally, a machine-shed sacrament of reconciliation. He writes and narrates a weekly essay on regional history for KWIT, public radio, Sioux City, Iowa. He and his wife Barbara live on the northern edge of Alton, Iowa, the Sgt. Floyd River a hundred yards or so from their back door. They have a cat--rather, he has them.

The Death of Crickets

Here, as elsewhere in nature, it's really all about sex.  Their raspy lascivious retching, I'm told, comes in four different…
September 20, 2013

 It arrived in the mail, a gift from my wife's cousin, who found it while sifting through their aunt's keepsakes--a…
September 6, 2013

Blessed Assurance

  I don't believe I will ever sing "Blessed Assurance" without thinking of my father.  He never mentioned that hymn…
August 9, 2013

It's a story I never tired of telling, and it happened just last week--well, July 15, 1838 (and, no, I…
July 25, 2013

  James Russell Lowell, who stood grandly among the literary luminaries of the mid-19th century, created a darling series of…
July 12, 2013

Fear Not

Once upon a time, the Schaap family lived here--the island of Terschelling, one of a small chain of islands off…
June 28, 2013

Branding

  This morning, Woot's got a sale on baseball gloves, not just any gloves--Rawlings gloves.  I will not, again, in…
May 31, 2013