Thought-provoking article here: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2023/october/cost-of-creativity-bonhoeffer-set-aside-ethics-for-art...

What follows is a reflection about marketing "independently published" books. I am very incompetent in this area, I confess. I have been...

It's been a while since I posted here. I've been on two trips and the fall semester started--and it's been a zinger! I ended up with two...

Definition: a trial of machinery, software, or other products, in the final stages of its development, carried out by a party unconnected...

Today I attended an author event at The Crazy Lady Book Store in Acworth, GA. Below are the questions we were asked to prepare for the...

Do English teachers not teach about paragraphs any more? I get research papers with paragraphs of 500 words or more. I get business ...

I would love to meet other readers! These other fellows are more interesting than me, too!

I confess. In some of my novels, characters . . . cuss. A little. Damn and hell, but keeping God of it. And some vulgarities,...

This isn’t about the most recent sale of a Van Gogh and the “price” someone was willing to pay to own something Van Gogh created and...

It is not just grief for one person we feel. It is loss of anything or many things or all things. It is the absence of anyone. It is the...

I moved into this neighborhood 23 months ago. I am very happy here. Like many Americans, though, I have not met all my neighbors, not...

Below I have included the outline of my talk last weekend as a speed presenter at a writers conference. I was speedy because this was too...

Today (actually yesterday, but I wrote this last evening) I spent with fellow writers. They were readers, too, but a writers’ conference...

I blog in two other places. http://partsofspeaking.blogspot.com/ I post here quite regularly on all manner of issues. Some of you might...

I think you will find this article interesting: Twenty-one Authors Share One Piece of Advice for Writers. I think the one I have to come...

Gleaned from social media. I am teaching from Luke 4 this week, and this one by C.S. Lewis is relevant. Check out 28-30. It also reminds...

Ever since, We have wanted gardens. Patches of dirt where nothing grows but color and form; That call to bees and hummingbirds; Where...

I do not consider myself a poet. Occasionally a mood will hit me and I will write a poem, but I do not inflict it on others. But here I...

Is this a true definition of fiction? It sounds clever. It's short and punchy. It's ironic; it has a twist. But it doesn't work, not for...

Lent started more than two weeks ago as I write this on March 10 of 2023. Ash Wednesday was February 22. Lent will end on Easter, or...