My kids and I don’t often go to see movies but this was the second in two weeks and will be our last for awhile.  It wasn’t that Noah was bad, though it sure stirred a lot of controversy in our family, or that Captain America wasn’t thrilling, though it too stirred some serious thoughts, but in both cases I found myself struggling against a momentous sense that humanity is…

“Leroy is dead? You’ve got to be kidding!”  Bensen reached for a beer and sat down.  “I thought that ol’ man would live to be 100…99 at least.  Hey, the way Marie looked after him, he should have. She was in perfect health, of course. Marie could’ve run circles around an Olympic athlete.  She just didn’t like competition.  Too proud.”

Jettison shook his head.  “You think she was proud?  Marie never struck me that way.  Flighty, obsessed, anxiety ridden, maybe…but never proud.” …

“Dove! So good to see ya!  It’s been so long!  How long has it been?  Months?  Years?  I can’t keep track, too busy, things keeps me hopping!  Ha! Ha!  Really, you know how it is.  I think of you all the time.  Been keeping up with those kids of yours?  Where are the little…rapscallions?”

Dove had closed her eyes when she heard the car pull into the drive way.  She exhaled and threw her dish rag into the sink.  I don’t normally pray, God, well not about silly things, well not like…

There  are a lot of books to choose from out there and what I have been discovering as an author is that we really do impact the world around us – not only by what we write, but by what we read.  We fill our minds and hearts with imagery that either takes us far from the God who made us, or we attempt to see his face in the myriad of reflections offered to us through…

Kiddo could not understand why he had been sent home.  After all he only told the truth.  Everybody said it and he was just saying what everybody said.  So, why was he being treated like a criminal?  Kiddo slouched into the kitchen, slapped down the top of the…

I know…I know…Words mean different things to different people, but can we agree on one thing?  Words do bring images to mind.  Whether I am talking about dogs and you imagine a French Poodle and your buddy pictures a Labrador, can we agree that generally we all got the idea of a four legged creature, man’s best friend, furry, often friendly with a wagging tail?  Ok – so…

The Flounder Family Ch 3

The Flounder Family Chapter 2

Chapter One

Jettison’s Tough Day

Jettison really had no intention of locking his keys in the trunk of the car, it was just one of those things that just sort of happens.  His wife, Dove, didn’t see it that way.

“What were you thinking?  Who puts their keys in the trunk in the first place?”

“I didn’t put them there, they fell in.  They were in my shirt pocket and when I was shoving the milk…

Dear Readers,

Things have been busy since I last updated you about my books…

First, the next book after The Deliverance Trilogy, GEORGIOS, actually made it through the first round on the Amazon Novel Contest!  What a wonderful gift!  To have made it from 10,000 entrants to 400 in the Young Adult category was a huge blessing for me.  Now I am eager awaiting the April 14th announcement.  That round will be based on the excepts we sent in.  I am hoping and praying. But in any…