A great quote on Paul & II Timothy:  “It’s always important to listen to the words of a dying man.” -Bill Tolar Read the book this weekend. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”  -Aristotle “It’s a simple formula; do your best and somebody might like it.”  – Dorothy Baker Today’s Verse:  Proverbs 10:9 …

“Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still.”   Proverbs 9:9 One of my college professors said,  “Most of you will never read a book to learn once you leave college.” I’ve been trying to prove him wrong over the years.  Hopefully, my education has continued through reading.  It’s a way to grow, stretch, and improve. Read on!   Much …

We truly live in a wonderful world.  That’s the reason I always carry my camera/iphone.

Stuck on Devil’s Tower   . . . I’m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time. On October 1, 1941 parachutist George Hopkins did something incredibly stupid.  He parachuted onto the top of Wyoming’s Devil’s Tower. Recently while visiting this impressive national monument, I read about Hopkin’s stunt. He did it to get attention and got much …

In my former life (as a biology teacher) I became known as the snake man.  I’ve always been fascinated with snakes.  (One evangelist at the camp once said,  “I think a lot of you, but you and those snakes worry me.”) Late August and September are active times for snakes in Louisiana.  It’s what the old timers called “The Dog …

Podcast This is our reader’s all time favorite story, “Dead End Road.”  Enjoy! 04 Dead End Road 2 It’s from my second book, The Old House.

“A Southern Woman can do anything.” -Iris My friend Iris gave me this reply to a question I asked. It sums up why I’ve always loved Southern women. I’m thankful for the Southern women in my life. I married one. She can’t be beat. I was birthed by one.  My mother reared us with the best qualities that make our …

01 Leaning trees 1 “Leaning Trees” is a reader favorite from Hearts across the Water. It’s more than a story about pines trees after a hurricane, it’s about not giving up on people, especially young people.

‘The Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.”  Proverbs 3:12 It goes against our nature to be thankful for discipline. No one wants it, but everyone needs it. I’m thankful for God’s guiding hand in my life, even when it’s been to spank me back in line.

This is a poem by my dear cousin, Mary V. Iles Hudson.  She lives in Lake Charles and is full of live at 90+. She is one of the last remaining great-grandchildren of my heroes in The Wayfaring Stranger/A Good Place,  Joe and Eliza Moore. Perseverance A seed fell on a certain spot. Just how or when mankind knows not. …