Last summer, we’d just passed the bridge at Nijmegen where, 600 yards to the west, hundreds of GIs paddled…
James C. SchaapFebruary 10, 2012
The hardest work I ever did was a three-week stint--that's all--with a road crew cutting sod and laying it down…
James C. SchaapJanuary 11, 2012
Case closed. I'm an Iowan, once upon a time a Republican, and I am at this moment endorsing a candidate.…
James C. SchaapDecember 31, 2011
A half a century ago, I was a kid in a Sunday school class taught by a man who’d taught…
James C. SchaapDecember 16, 2011
My wife, who's now retired and therefore been home more often these days than she's been in the 25 years we've…
James C. SchaapDecember 2, 2011
Professor Helen Vendler says that Emily Dickinson changed the first word of the fourth line the poem "Safe in their…
James C. SchaapNovember 18, 2011
Ten years ago maybe, my in-laws, then in their eighties, told us that they had simply mentioned to the pastor, as…
James C. SchaapNovember 4, 2011
