Timothy P. Schilling writes from Utrecht, the Netherlands. This reflection opens his memoir, Lonesome Road, which will be published by Wipf and Stock. Also by this author A Lesson from My Father Get Commonweal’s latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the 2005-07-15 issue: View Contents Most Recent Trump’s Offshore Gulag By The Editors April 16, 2025 Pilgrims, Presence, and American Power By Kathleen Sprows Cummings April 16, 2025 ‘The Great Unread’ By Gus Mitchell April 16, 2025