Zinsser was born October 7, 1922. Following service in the Army in North Africa and Italy during World War II, he returned to the United...

First, he calculated how much time he had had to that point of his life. (I think he was in his mid-70s at the time, having been born...

Throughout much of America’s military history, its strategies of warfare have been based to varying degrees on the teachings of three...

[From Combat! Spiritual Lessons from Military History by Dennis L. Peterson, available on Amazon at http://ow.ly/ZXQ350xX9mx] #writing...

That quotation came to mind the other day as I read a short article by Stephen Clay McGehee titled “Words Have Meaning” at The Southern...

“The transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next, Sun Tzu taught, was the key to long-term military success. . . . [The...

Be sure to check out Part 1 of the featured article about this book on Southern Writers magazine’s Suite T blog this Friday at...

This article of mine just came out in the Spring issue of Parent Update by the American Association of Christian Schools. #writing...

Don’t you just hate it when you buy (or buy into) something that has been highly touted but once you get it doesn’t meet your...

Readers of this blog know by now that I’m a bibliophile, I love books and reading them. Granted, I’m selective in what I read, but within...

“Write what you know.” “Your writing becomes like what you read.” Since I began writing for publication back in the late 1970s/early...

I suspect, however, that for many attendees a better name might be Ignite2Write, because they often leave the conference inspired to...

I’ll soon be leaving the safety and security of my writer’s cocoon and venturing well beyond my comfort zone. And for an introvert like...

I finished reading Louis L’Amour’s memoir Education of a Wandering Man last week in the spare moments when I wasn’t writing or doing...

As readers of this blog already know, I tend to prefer reading nonfiction over fiction. But they also know that I’m trying to break out...

It’s school time again. You can’t avoid knowing that fact because of all the Walmart aisles crowded with school supplies for sale. (I...

I was impressed the minute the man got out of his truck. My appreciation for him grew by the minute. When the installer arrived, two...

The children of those early settlers either established farms (often quite large ones), towns, and cities or pressed further west to do...

But that painting, “Snap the Whip,” was more than a sanity-maintainer for me. It reminded me of three special people: my grandfather, my...

I recently completed an eight-part series answering the question “How does one go about getting a book published?” Some of my writer...