He came along in my life when I needed him, even though I didn’t know I did. I wanted to write, but I knew little

  Yesterday, my neighbor came by and dumped a scoop full of black dirt on what, someday, will be–we hope–our front lawn. What some people

That’s a political rally right here in Alton, Iowa, circa 1903. That’s Teddy Roosevelt gesturing off the caboose of that train, making a stump speech,

There are two women in this story, two women and 125 years. One of them, this one, Renske, immigrated to America at the end of

He was, in a way, both a large part and a small part of the Allied Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944–a small part because

Two other mountain men stayed with him, and one of them, Jim Bridger, would become even more famous than he. It was 1823, and they

Just a short chapter into Rudy and Shirley Nelson’s richly furnished international thriller, The Risk of Returning, Ted Peterson, who calls himself a “lost child,” is

A phone call from my mother years ago–I think I was in college–included other news, I’m sure, but what she said after a deep breath