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James Schaap

  James Russell Lowell, who stood grandly among the literary luminaries of the mid-19th century, created a darling series of thumbnail sketches featuring his rival

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Fear Not

Once upon a time, the Schaap family lived here–the island of Terschelling, one of a small chain of islands off the northwest corner of the

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Branding

  This morning, Woot’s got a sale on baseball gloves, not just any gloves–Rawlings gloves.  I will not, again, in my life, have need of

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Prayers for a young widow

  By all accounts, he was a really good guy–good father, good husband, good church-goer.  In some ways, on paper at least, he seems quintessentially

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Come Get

  There was a telephone booth somewhere near the Variety Store back then, a telephone booth I hardly ever used.  There was no need really–I

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Small things

 There’s just so much about what happened in Boston on Monday that’s going to happen again.  Will people hate?  Yes.  For a dozen reasons or

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Me and Norman Bates

Hey, I’m no purist.  Maybe I should be–after all, I’ve been a classroom teacher for my whole life, an English teacher too.  I’ve every right

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Benediction

  On a plane, I’m a reader not a talker. In fact, I rather resent jabberers, warm-hearted folks, I’m sure, who make it their mission

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