This past weekend, I attended what has become an annual event but that I have been able to attend only a couple of times–the reunion of...

As we approach the cusp of another new month (can it really be October already?), a quick glance at my planning calendar reveals some...

Last week, I accompanied my wife to Myrtle Beach for her teachers convention. While she attended various workshops, I had my own writer’s...

I’ve been an avid reader ever since I caught the “reading bug” in Mrs. George’s fifth-grade class. At first, I read a little of...

Today is the Trail of Tears Commemoration Day, the recognition of a national tragedy. The seeds of what culminated in the...

I’ve been reminded that this month is designated National Courtesy Month. In fact, September 2 (yes, I know I’m a little late, but I’m...

I am always on the lookout for resources that will help me improve my writing, my editing, my marketing, and my knowledge of my subject...

I guess, based on the dates of those various special days, that someone wants you to read the book before you buy it. It’s usually the...

By now, you know the point that I’ve been driving at in the previous four posts. Others overcame great obstacles and wrote in spite of...

The Bible tells us that the apostle Paul was arrested, tried, and punished multiple times for the sake of the gospel. He was whipped five...

At first, back in seventeenth-century England, Bunyan was just a tinker, an itinerant small businessman who sold and repaired metal...

Continuing our survey of some famous writers who refused to use their circumstances as an excuse not to write, today we consider another...

How often we writers find every possible excuse not to do what we want other people to think we do–write. We are too tired, too busy, too...

Following publication of a review of my book Confederate Cabinet Departments and Secretaries in my hometown newspaper, a high school...

He stepped from the Cleveland dugout swinging his bat as though he meant business and strode to the plate. He stepped into the batter’s...

Of the eleven Confederate states, which two were never represented in the executive branch? Which cabinet member was born in Germany,...

Kentucky had started the war proclaiming its official neutrality. Although it did not join the Confederacy, neither did it want to...

Change implies vision, hope, forward thinking, improvement, betterment, advancement, movement. Change can be good, offering the very...

Such starkly contrasting events, especially coming, as they sometimes do, so close together, tend to sober us and cause us to realize...

In May 2008, my wife and I had four unmarried daughters out of college and starting their respective careers. Within less than two years,...