Blog One unforgettable morning on the prairieOut here on the eastern emerald cusp of the Great Plains, on some balmy early fall days it’s not hard…James C. SchaapSeptember 10, 2021
Blog For the first day of school. . .A few scrappy, three-foot cuttings, no bigger than buggy whips, are coming up from the front yards of a half-dozen…James C. SchaapAugust 27, 2021
Blog Once more, the Eman storyAnd this, you have to believe, was one of the grandest moments of her life, the day that Dutch royalty--King…James C. SchaapAugust 13, 2021
Blog To be contentIt might be fanciful. No one who was there was alive when the book was written, but let's just assume…James C. SchaapJuly 30, 2021
Blog PilgrimageOdd-looking thing, really. Its keyboard makes it a piano or organ of some sort, but it comes packaged in what…James C. SchaapJuly 2, 2021
Blog What’s on deckIt doesn't bug me. The truth is, I love it, but it does scare me a bit: my granddaughter is…James C. SchaapJune 18, 2021
Blog Remembering tears, twiceOnce upon a time, he shot at surfacing German subs in the North Atlantic, tried to pick off the crews…James C. SchaapJune 4, 2021
Blog Mission FestIt’s a bit of an embarrassment really, or so I discovered. I’d never heard of the monument until it showed…James C. SchaapMay 21, 2021
Blog I know it’s a stretchThe whole thing’s a stretch, but what the heck--I'm lovin' it. Sheriff Pat Garrett plugged Billy the Kid, a notorious gunslinger,…James C. SchaapMay 7, 2021
Blog The ObduratePerhaps it was more typical than not--that night, I mean. The guy worked a high-crime district, West Palm Beach, where…James C. SchaapApril 23, 2021