Flood Plain

     In early September, at the end of a long, busy summer, I learned that my long-time friend, colleague, and fellow writer Jack Leax had ...

      As I was entering the last of my 45 years of teaching, 35 at the small Christian liberal arts college I retired from, I was asked to b...

[Part II: Frost Heaves, a Coda, if you will, to the February 23, 2024 post on the human costs of building walls.]          It would be unfai...

                              Something there is that does n’t love a wall,           That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,    ...

    We did not visit the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along the 38th Parallel during our five months in Korea in 2011, despite (or maybe because...

  So it was on that long journey into childhood, when few moments had accumulated in Memory and fewer still as Family History, before specia...

       Once upon a time, lists were a different thing. My mom always kept a grocery list, of course, but I am referring to a different kind ...