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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.

Of the Heart

Nobody gets paid. Let’s get that out of the way. A goodly number of us do commendable and even exhausting…
November 26, 2021

Preparations

If you're a prairie kind of person, some ordinary flat-lander, and if you consider Iowa's rolling landscape as the very…
November 5, 2021

Morning Thanks

Part of the shock that first morning at a rural medical clinic in Ghana grew from my innocence and perhaps…
October 8, 2021

To be content

It might be fanciful. No one who was there was alive when the book was written, but let's just assume…
July 30, 2021

Pilgrimage

Odd-looking thing, really. Its keyboard makes it a piano or organ of some sort, but it comes packaged in what…
July 2, 2021