Falling Back

Ah, the Great Time Change is about to happen here in the Midwest. Although I’m not a fan of all this messing around with our clocks, I do enjoy that extra hour of sleep on Saturday night in the fall. Of course, I usually waste it by staying up late since...

We Win. Eventually.

Someone read my brochure this weekend and asked, “So what exactly is an eternal optimist?” Without launching into a theological treatise, I told him, “It is someone who believes things are going to ultimately work out. Not that bad things won’t...

Blog on Tour

Hello, Dear Reader. I hope you haven’t felt ignored lately. My blog is out on tour to celebrate the release of Thirty Days to Glory. I’ll be checking in here now and then, but I won’t be back to my regularly scheduled routine for another couple of...

While I Waited

It took about ten years from the first image of Elmer Grigsby in my mind until he appeared on the printed page of Thirty Days to Glory. Today I talk about what I did while I waited. You can read about it on the Palmetto Christian Writers Network blog, hosted by some...

A Family Affair

Birthing is a group event in our family. When John Michael was born (fourteen years ago today), he gathered quite a crowd. Three generations on both sides of his family settled into the hospital waiting room and paced the long halls while his mother labored to birth...