The summer of 1952 was a defining year of my life. Up until that summer, I was a typical young Nebraska farm boy, full of energy, loved baseball, loved my mother's fried chicken and gravy, loved her home made (everything was) rhubarb cobbler and had no worries about keeping up with the Joneses; the Joneses didn't have anything either. ...more

October 21, 2009

before I realized that final confrontation in the kitchen was staged for me and my brothers. Papa wanted us to know what kind of woman Mama was, and he succeeded. But the lesson I learned was not the one he intended. Something else happened that spring, however, something that gave me reason to watch and wait, imagining flashes of summer colors out of the corner of my eye. ...more

January 25, 2009

Tale of a Dutch family coping with upheavals of German occupation during World War II. Last of four parts. ...more

January 23, 2009

Steve Williams says he wasn't nervous. To be sure, he certainly wasn't as nervous as the bowler two lanes to the right of him. ...more

June 4, 2008

Steve Williams says he wasn't nervous. To be sure, he certainly wasn't as nervous as the bowler two lanes to the right of him. ...more

June 4, 2008

Steve Williams says he wasn't nervous. To be sure, he certainly wasn't as nervous as the bowler two lanes to the right of him. ...more

June 4, 2008

Steve Williams says he wasn't nervous. To be sure, he certainly wasn't as nervous as the bowler two lanes to the right of him. ...more

June 4, 2008

Steve Williams says he wasn't nervous. To be sure, he certainly wasn't as nervous as the bowler two lanes to the right of him. ...more

June 4, 2008

Steve Williams says he wasn't nervous. To be sure, he certainly wasn't as nervous as the bowler two lanes to the right of him. ...more

June 4, 2008

as in, didn't give up a goal. But one got away in the district finale against Robinson last week. ...more

December 19, 2007