Everyone (almost) in Western culture is familiar with the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15. Even if they have no interest...

Back in April I wrote this to a writer I am mentoring. It's an artifact from the intense days of the pandemic shutdown. What a wonderful...

Sometimes in blogging you just want to send your readers to other good sources. Below I have linked an article about whether empathy can...

All of us are skilled in something. All of us are talented in something. There is a difference. Skilled is achieved through thousands of...

What does a best-seller from the mid-1800s have to say to us today? Pretty much everything. 1. Detail. Fiction writers closely observe...

When one reads Austen—and I should say Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes—one gets a straightforward narrative. The first chapter of David...

Last night I finished the last of the six novels Jane Austen wrote fully; I don’t count Sanditon, because someone else finished it, or...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz We have a cart on the second floor of our building where professors put out books they...

I offer this somewhat dystopian short story. It is copyrighted by Barbara Graham Tucker, 2020.

On Monday I went to my first, and I hope only, funeral in the time of coronavirus. The service was for the father of a woman in my church...

I can only finish with the promise that Someone is bigger than COVID-19...

A sneak peak into my newest novel.

Can a Christian write R-rated material?

Should you be in a writers group?

A fun and easy way to approach writing.

I wrote this post to express myself, but it is really a call to everyone else who aspires to write, and hopefully, write well, to pen (or...