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James Schaap

Morning Thanks

Part of the shock that first morning at a rural medical clinic in Ghana grew from my innocence and perhaps my substantial prejudices, the hefty

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Once more, the Eman story

And this, you have to believe, was one of the grandest moments of her life, the day that Dutch royalty–King and Queen–visited Michigan and called

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To be content

It might be fanciful. No one who was there was alive when the book was written, but let’s just assume the writer did her homework

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Pilgrimage

Odd-looking thing, really. Its keyboard makes it a piano or organ of some sort, but it comes packaged in what looks like a suitcase far

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What’s on deck

It doesn’t bug me. The truth is, I love it, but it does scare me a bit: my granddaughter is becoming something and someone more

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Remembering tears, twice

Once upon a time, he shot at surfacing German subs in the North Atlantic, tried to pick off the crews who were aiming anti-aircraft flak

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