making beauty
(Originally published Saturday, December 31, 2005) I have been doing a bit of ranting lately … about the horrors of the death penalty, about the scandal of an administration that is reluctant to...
View Articlethe sami got me thinking
Last evening my wife and I attended a Sons of Norway gathering as guests of some friends of ours. We shared a catered meal, listened as members conducted club business, and watched with them a...
View Articleso what do i think of the da vinci code?
Not much. Which means both that I don’t think much of it, and that I don’t think much about it. I have neither seen the movie nor read the book, though I’ve read reviews and talked with folks who have....
View Articlelove and war
We were visited by a major winter storm in Iowa this weekend, and our Saturday and Sunday plans (which were many!) were cancelled. We enjoyed some good down time, a fire in the fireplace, and we...
View Articlecrazy horse
I finished this book during our summer vacation in Maine … and left it with my mother who wanted to read it too! It is a classic and faithful retelling by Mari Sandoz of the story of Crazy Horse, the...
View Articlestraight story
What a great movie! I previewed David Lynch’s film the straight story last evening. It tells the real-life story of Alvin Straight, an elderly Iowan who rode a lawn mower two hundred and sixty miles...
View Article“what do i know of holy”
I made you promises a thousand times. I’ve tried to hear from heaven, but I talked the whole time. I think I made you too small. I never feared you at all, no … If you touched my face, would I know...
View Article“miah and friends”
Watch a video recording of the finale from the “Miah and Friends” organ recital performed at First Congregational United Church of Christ on April 29. The piece is “Maestoso” from “Organ Symphony No....
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