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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

Chapter 2 A Spent Bullet If you missed reading or listening to our podcast of the opening chapter of A Spent Bullet, you can access it on an earlier blog post.   Enjoy!   Curt Iles [display_podcast] Chapter 2 Bad News CLOSE VOTE EXTENDS SERVICE TERM FOR THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS (Washington) By a vote of 203-202 yesterday, Congress removed restrictions pertaining to …

"Monday I go to Louisiana. The Old-Timer's say it is a land of mud, malaria, mosquitoes and misery." -Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower August 1941

“Success is nothing more that a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the cumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.” -Jim Rohn Today’s Proverb: When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. -Proverbs 11:2

click here to listen to the poem, God’s Timing is Always Right God is very seldom early But He’s always right on time. When the need must be met by midnight, He’ll supply at 11:59 Just as Moses stood in the water At the edge of the Red Sea, God waits until the very end To supply our every need. …

I’ve been thinking lately about one of my heroes, Jerry Clower.  His stories and sayings are burned into my Southern brain.  He was a great comedian and even better person. A few years ago I visited East Fork Cemetery to pay my respects at Jerry’s grave. I expected to find a large tombstone befitting the famous man who became rich,  …

Red Touch Yellow, Kill a Fellow Monday, June 14 For the fourth time I go back to my seat in the tabernacle.  Four hundred and fifty G.A. girls sit in rapt attention as camp pastor Ronnie LaLande does a monologue on Namaan.  He is resplendent in a robe, turban, and sandals.  Bro. Ronnie has been a G.A. camp fixture for …

How do open doors in our lives connect with God’s will? It does remind me that often pushing on doors is God’s way of revealing His will.  If he closes tight, we move to another door.  If it creaks open, we walk through until the next door. Your thoughts on this.

Our latest novel,  A Spent Bullet, will be released soon from Westbow Press.  As a final tune-up for the novel, we’ll be sharing the book chapter by chapter.  Your kudos and criticisms are welcome. Enjoy! Curt Iles A Spent Bullet A Novel By Curt Iles Part I The Battle for the Bullet “I want the mistakes made down in Louisiana, …

Joseph Moore comes to America. The Wayfaring Stranger (2007) is my first historical novel.  It fictionlizes the journey of my great-great-great grandfather, Joe Moore, an Irish stowaway who came to the Piney Woods of western Louisiana. This passage tells of his ship entering the Mississippi River and America. Enjoy! He wondered if he would ever see or smell the ocean …

The Swamp It’s Wednesday morning as we all sit or stand in the Swamp‑ all twenty‑five of us.  Now the Swamp is a classic building at Dry Creek.  It is the summer home of our boy staffers.  I recall with fondness the summer twenty years ago I spent in it as staff director.  To all of us guys who’ve worked …

“When FDR said,  ‘If a rattlesnake is poised to strike… you don’t wait… you crush its head” I knew we were going to war.”   -Soldier during La. Maneuvers 1941 Pretend you’re a young soldier in 1941. Stuck in Louisiana during weeks of maneuvers in the field.  You’re unsure if war is coming. Or imagine being a teenager during this same …

George Katzman is a lifetime friend of mine who serves in Crestview, Florida.  He’s a native of Florien, Louisiana (home of the Black Cats) He is a fellow Louisiana College alum and also graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.  This is an exceptionally wise article. George Katzman stands in front of Florida’s only 24 hour open air used bookstore.  It …

A Touching Story of the Heart I spent most of the day today at Alexandria’s Rapides General Hospital as my lifetime best friend, Joe Aguillard, had bypass surgery. We’re thankful to God for successful quadruple bypass on Joe. Continue in prayer for Joe, Judy, and their girls as he recuperates.  Joe fills an extremely important position as President of our …