The first event occurred last Thursday afternoon as I was putting the final touches on my blog posting, which was to appear the next...

Different teachers have different teaching styles. Even students recognize that fact, and they often like (or dislike) a teacher because...

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...

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Someone (I conducted a brief online search to discover who, but I found no definitive answer) once said, “When God closes a door, He...

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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...

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...

No doubt, you’ve heard the adage “a jack of all trades, a master of none,” referring to someone who can do a lot of different things but...

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

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...

“We want to live in the present,” he said, “and the only history that is worth [anything] is the history we make today.” Sadly, that...

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...

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

A number of years ago, my wife and I were returning from a trip up north and were cruising along somewhere down I-75 in Ohio. We had a...

Just when I had about concluded that true chivalry was dead, I saw the living embodiment of that very quality. It wasn’t exhibited by...

Recently, during one of the brief lulls between ten straight days of rain showers when the sun was making a brief appearance, I was...

One of the most-often stated maxims of writing instruction is “Show, don’t tell.” For example, instead of telling me that a particular...