Creekbank Blog

This is from my new novel, A Spent Bullet.  It details an emotional day for Louisiana schoolteacher Elizabeth Reed and her family.   Enjoy! To help you get in place:  Elizabeth Reed, a 20 year old single schoolteacher lives with her family in Bundick, La.  The start of school has been delayed due to the ongoing Louisiana Army Maneuvers.  Her younger …

“A Father’s Love” This is a favorite story of readers as well as one I use often in speaking. It’s the best kind of story: funny then touching.  I’ve seen listeners go from laughing to crying in a minute. Enjoy! Curt Hear the audio read by the author:   05 A father’s Love It’s graduation night at our high school.   My …

  Professor Cavanaugh’s Best Lecture Audio of “Prof Cavanaugh”   I stood in the hallway outside the Louisiana College biology department’s second floor office, waiting to see Professor Cavanaugh.  I’d been standing nervously for several minutes, my chemistry book under one arm, and a class drop sheet in the other. Professor Charles J. Cavanaugh was a Louisiana College institution.  “Prof” …

Dry Creek Memories

Heavenly Treasures on Casino Road   From the book,  The Old House, by Curt Iles The silver BMW zooms by me as we head west on US 190 outside Reeves, Louisiana.  It’s a hot Saturday afternoon in June, and as always, our Louisiana summer humidity is tough to bear, and impossible to enjoy.  I’m driving the camp van, loaded with …

I’m just returning from a speaking engagement in southern Arizona.  It was simply great being with pastors and wives of Catalina Baptist Association. Today’s quote:  “The shortest distance between truth and a human heart is a story.”   -Anthony deMello Sharp hooks and tough-mouthed catfish… I never knew Reas Weeks . . . but I’ll always remember the following story about …

“A $1000 Saddle on a $100 Horse” From Wind in the Pines by Curt Iles This story was told to me by my friend Diann Cain Norris and it is still among my favorites. Diann’s family has always been active in rodeos.  Her parents, Junior and Anita Cain made sure their three daughters, Diann, Dena, DeAnn were busy with both …

“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”  It may be July-hot in Louisiana but it is still a wonderful day.

Below is a link to an AFR radio interview with Dan Allen about my novel, A Good Place. Curt Iles AFR Interview Dan Allen 2010 A Good Place