My wife recently got the sudden urge to clean out our attic. I helped her most by staying out of her way. After all, there was hardly...

The other day, my wife declared that it was time for her to plant her sweet potatoes. For some reason that I can't explain, my mind...

In my last post, I mentioned that I had been reading volume 7 of Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church and learning to...

Although my first love in sports was always baseball, I was never able to play organized ball. The closest I got was playing cow-pasture...

Among the various subjects about which I enjoy reading is the lives of famous writers. Every such biography I read always gives me some...

All writers, if they expect to sell their work, should engage in periodic market watching. Too often, however, we get so busy...

Two events happened recently and set me to thinking simultaneously about both my experiences as a teacher and research historian as well...

Just learned that my book Dillon's War is beginning the editing phase with TouchPoint Press editor Kimberly Coghlan. Hoping for a release...

Thomas Wolfe famously titled one of his works You Can't Go Home Again. That's true in so many ways, and it was brought to my mind...

I recently shared some of the following thoughts with an assembly of junior high and high school students. Perhaps you'll find them...

The other day, I came across some statistics that, to me, are quite alarming. I wonder if anyone else finds them similarly alarming....

Words of wisdom are all around us if we are just aware enough to see and hear them. Some of that advice is given to us directly by...

Two men who had a great impact on my life passed away in the past week. One I knew personally; the other I knew only through his...

Those who know me or have read much of my blog know that I read a lot, often having multiple books going at the same time. They also know...

Although we haven't had any snow yet this year where I live, I've seen the reports of others elsewhere who have. The sight of those snows...

The quietness and dim lighting of the eye doctor's examining room were conducive to one of two reactions. One might have been to sleep,...

Someone asked me one day how I became an author. In turn, I asked them, "How much time do you have? It's a long story!" Because some of...

By the time one reaches my age, he surely knows how things go whenever there is a household chore that must be tackled, such as a...

The last several months have seemed like a return to yesteryear. I'm referring to the time several decades ago when we suffered through...

If you've followed this blog for very long, you know that I read a lot of books. A lot! I don't have time to waste reading books that...