FIRST, A REMINDER: Southern Writers magazine is featuring the first of a two-part article about my book Combat! Spiritual Lessons from...

Be sure to check out Part 1 of the featured article about this book on Southern Writers magazine’s Suite T blog this Friday at...

Before getting into the subject of this week’s blog post . . . A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! In my previous blog post, I discussed the danger...

No doubt, you’ve heard the adage “a jack of all trades, a master of none,” referring to someone who can do a lot of different things but...

As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, the wheels of the publishing machine sometimes move slowly. But, like a railroad locomotive, once...

I remember hearing my Nannie Summers comment that time flew faster and faster as one got older. I never understood that as a child. It...

I’m thankful that I live in a country that affords me great freedoms, of expression, of worship, of opportunities to better myself, and...

That said, I was reading for pleasure a few nights ago (an historical novel, no less!) when my editorial alarm went off like an air-raid...

Often, we cannot truly appreciate someone or what they have experienced or done until we’ve walked the proverbial mile in their shoes. In...

Readers of this blog know by now that I’m a bibliophile, I love books and reading them. Granted, I’m selective in what I read, but within...

“Write what you know.” “Your writing becomes like what you read.” Since I began writing for publication back in the late 1970s/early...

Lately, I’ve been mulling what I should title one of the books on which I’ve been working. Now that the manuscript is finished and ready...

I finished reading Louis L’Amour’s memoir Education of a Wandering Man last week in the spare moments when I wasn’t writing or doing...

As readers of this blog already know, I tend to prefer reading nonfiction over fiction. But they also know that I’m trying to break out...

The wheels of the publishing machine often turn slowly, especially when an author is awaiting an editor’s response to a submission or the...

Beyond the fact that it was a work of fiction, which I seldom read (but have been trying to open myself to more often), it had a...

For fifteen years, we had sped past the place just off I-95 in Pooler, Georgia. Every time we had driven to visit my in-laws in Florida...

“We want to live in the present,” he said, “and the only history that is worth [anything] is the history we make today.” Sadly, that...

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The children of those early settlers either established farms (often quite large ones), towns, and cities or pressed further west to do...