It arrived in the mail, a gift from my wife's cousin, who found it while sifting through their aunt's keepsakes--a…
James C. SchaapSeptember 6, 2013
I don't believe I will ever sing "Blessed Assurance" without thinking of my father. He never mentioned that hymn…
James C. SchaapAugust 9, 2013
It's a story I never tired of telling, and it happened just last week--well, July 15, 1838 (and, no, I…
James C. SchaapJuly 25, 2013
James Russell Lowell, who stood grandly among the literary luminaries of the mid-19th century, created a darling series of…
James C. SchaapJuly 12, 2013
Once upon a time, the Schaap family lived here--the island of Terschelling, one of a small chain of islands off…
James C. SchaapJune 28, 2013
The Lighthouse at Westkapelle by Piet Mondrian I stumbled on a incredible war story about Westkapelle, Zeeland, the Netherlands, in a…
James C. SchaapJune 14, 2013
This morning, Woot's got a sale on baseball gloves, not just any gloves--Rawlings gloves. I will not, again, in…
James C. SchaapMay 31, 2013
By all accounts, he was a really good guy--good father, good husband, good church-goer. In some ways, on paper…
James C. SchaapMay 17, 2013
There was a telephone booth somewhere near the Variety Store back then, a telephone booth I hardly ever used. …
James C. SchaapMay 3, 2013
