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Please welcome Katie Andraski to my blog. Katie’s post presents and illuminates many of the challenges I’ve faced with my writing, publishing, and, indeed, life in general. I think the bottom line is: We should try to find a worthy goal and keep striving to reach it, even with the knowledge that we may notRead more

I’m thrilled to have Chase Murphy as a guest on my blog. Like he says in his post, sometimes life is about hanging on long enough to get noticed, which is especially pertinent for many people today. Texas History. The Battle of Big Jim. By Chase Murphy A while back my dad asked me toRead more

I participate in the Köehler Author Forum on Facebook, which is limited to participants who are authors with Köehler Books. A recent topic on this forum focuses on why the participants became authors and what defines a person who claims to be a writer. My writing life began in the early evening of a weekdayRead more

I experienced an epiphany concerning time when I was a sophomore at LaGrange High School. This sudden new insight occurred shortly after my first day in Mrs. Raymond Smith’s sophomore English class. Mrs. Smith and my grandmother, Mama Ruth, sang in the choir at the First Presbyterian Church. I sometimes noticed Mrs. Smith looking intentlyRead more

The following is an excerpt from my in progress book, Through The Wilderness – a collection of essays on subjects at the interface of religion, science, politics, and culture. POLITICS: WHY AND HOW SHOULD CHRISTIANS PARTICIPATE? First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings andRead more

From my Ebook, Thoroughly Biased Opinions, an edited collection of my columns published in the Franklin County Citizen. I wrote this column when POTUS George W. Bush was still in office. (Photo courtesy of Folkert Gorter.) Know the Enemy Many, if not most, Americans probably do not understand how the current battles in Iraq, Afghanistan,Read more