PRISMATIST

On the afternoon of December 24, 1947, Loganville was preparing for a modest Christmas Eve.

I’m a freshwater kid at heart.

Some places have the power to change the way we look at and live in the world. This is the first in a series

A few more water-related vignettes from my years in Hawaii, 1980s

A month before Easter Violet Taylor stopped by Prairie Star Community Church

It was the day after Easter Sunday and Ezra Beeman stood next to the sink in the kitchen of the Prairie Star Community Church

Mark Twain was careful, almost reverential, about words.

This is an essay drawn from a sermon preached on World Communion Sunday, October 7, 2018, at Peace United Church of Christ, Duluth,...

Long tunnels of night Through the sweet, sulfur air The road always narrower “Are we there?”

Nova Scotia is very forested.  

I was driving through Texas Hill Country with my mom last month ...

U.S. Supreme Court Amended Version

You can’t be surprised unless you have expectations. 

Photographic tour of Iceland

I woke up to the sound of foghorns: long, deep, incessant foghorns.

As all the world knows, J. Donald Kent, voluntarily stopped driving three weeks before his 98th birthday

Every year I look forward to the precious few weeks when plants break the surface of the earth.

Sometime after midnight on July 6, 1982, my brothers and I climbed the old cherry-picker ladder

What is necessary for “community”?  A dictionary definition says it is members of a social group who have something in common - a...

I channeled this song from the Animal Kingdom…so please don’t shoot the messenger!