(A change of pace, from the Libertyville Covenant Church newsletter, March 2002) ============= Know any good folk-dance tunes about the church year? Well, here’s one, a little Christmas ditty that made its way from the old country to my grandparents’ and parents’ houses; it goes like this: “Now it is […]
Essays
(A version was originally published in Pietisten, Summer 2000) By Owen Youngman Homebound families are all alike; but every traveling family tends to travel in its own way. (I would suppose that this is no longer true in the era of the back-seat VCR-outfitted television and the backlit full-color GameBoy, since […]
Roadside remembrances
From Hong Kong to Hershey (Or, I Liked the Thick Chocolate Shake More Than the Thick Soup of Snake) Originally published in Pietisten, Summer 1997 “We Chinese eat everything in the sky that is not an airplane, everything under the sea that is not a submarine, and everything on land […]