I grew up in a great place – the rural South. There are so many wonderful things about a country Southern upbringing.  One of the best parts is the large extended family you grow up in.  As a small boy I had a multitude of great grandparents, grandparents, great uncles and aunts galore, cousins, and every other kin folk in …

In this excerpt from A Good Place,  12 year old Mayo is being chased by a wild bull called “Roscoe.”  I grew up in “Open Range” country where cattle roamed everywhere.  The story below is gleaned from an old family story concerning my great great uncle, Dan Iles. Climbing through another treetop, I broke off a small limb. When I …

Living in the Past But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. –Paul in Philippians 3: 13 My current manuscript, A Spent Bullet, deals with two young Americans in 1941 who have regrets from the past. Harry, a soldier training in Louisiana, has a dark secret from his life in Milwaukee. Elizabeth, a …