Blog Emma Coger made a sceneEmma Coger purchased a first-class ticket, including breakfast, on a Mississippi River steamer bound for Keokuk, Iowa.James C. SchaapFebruary 4, 2022
Blog “Encourage the people around you”There was a celebration of some sort in the gym that day. I don't know why or what was being…James C. SchaapJanuary 21, 2022
Blog ElegyWe watched him shave--at least I did. I mean, I didn't stand there gawking like some silly ten-year-old idiot, but…James C. SchaapJanuary 7, 2022
Blog Park Lane improvOkay, this little story feels for all the world like urban myth, but some stories just beg to be told…James C. SchaapDecember 24, 2021
Blog My neighbors’ storiesMen, women, and children huddled in covered wagons crossing endless prairie seem to beckon all by themselves some hovering, mounted…James C. SchaapDecember 10, 2021
Blog Of the HeartNobody gets paid. Let’s get that out of the way. A goodly number of us do commendable and even exhausting…James C. SchaapNovember 26, 2021
Blog Saturday Dance MacabreI don't mean this to sound like a "dance macabre," an old late-medieval allegory of death. I swear it wasn't.…James C. SchaapNovember 19, 2021
Blog PreparationsIf you're a prairie kind of person, some ordinary flat-lander, and if you consider Iowa's rolling landscape as the very…James C. SchaapNovember 5, 2021
Blog Morning ThanksPart of the shock that first morning at a rural medical clinic in Ghana grew from my innocence and perhaps…James C. SchaapOctober 8, 2021
Blog What I saw on my summer vacationHer apparel suggested a sect I didn't recognize. Her husband wore a great bushy beard. He appeared to be a…James C. SchaapSeptember 24, 2021