“There ain’t no tacky like Southern tacky.”   I’ve seen it all: pink flamingos filling the yard, trees painted white up to head high, tires half-buried as borders around the flowers, junk freezers at the driveway end for the trash (can anyone spell t-r-a-s-h  b-e-n-d.) These are the things I love about Southern Living (and I’m not talking about the …

Proverbs 8:1  “Does not wisdom* call out?  Does not understanding* raise her voice?” Proverbs is a book of wisdom.  Several times in the book, especially in chapter 8, wisdom is personified as a woman calling out to passersby with wisdom, intelligence, and insight. In chapter 9, another woman calls out (v.13)  She is named the woman Folly. She’s loud, brash, …

The first 300 copies of Deep Roots have arrived.  2000 more will be marching  in later in the week. You can easily order autographed copies at http://www.creekbank.net Here are locations where copies will be available by Tuesday evening: DeRidder:  Thrifty Way Pharmacy, Ideal Drugs, Big Stick Dry Creek:  Foremans, Dry Creek Camp DeQuincy:  Nichols Grant:  Grant Christmas Tree Farm Wednesday …

Friendship is such a wonderful thing. It’s even richer at this time of the year.  Enjoy friends and families as you celebrate the birth of Jesus.  My parents have shared a life-time friendship with Ed and Kat King. Bro. Ed and my dad are both gone.  However, our family’s friendship continues.  Leslie King, granddaughter in law of the King’s (married …

Click here to hear podcast of “Burned Yet Blessed” From Deep Roots, the new short story collection by Curt Iles Burned yet Blessed “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The next best time is today.” Nothing breaks my heart like a field of burned pines. Yet that is exactly what I’m looking at driving toward …

“The first rule of consumerism is never buy anything you can’t make your children carry.”  -Bill Bryson “No opera plot can be sensible for in sensible situations people do not sing.”  -Poet W.H. Auden This is My Father’s World This is my Father’s world, and to my listening ears all nature sings, and round me rings the music of the …

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Scroll down to read entire chapter from Deep Roots,  “The Pine Knot Pile.” Proverbs for Dec. 1  “… and the complacency of fools destroys them…”  Proverbs 1:32   Warning: doing nothing destroys just as improper action does! Quote for your day: “A friend is a present you give yourself.”  -Robert Louis Stevenson Deep Roots update:  Our new …