Creekbank Stories Curt Iles, Storyteller

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 …

My new pastor, José Canseco Written in 2009 . . . My youngest son, Terry, left excitedly this morning for the New Orleans Superdome. He was headed to the LSU-Ohio State football game. His cousin, Brady Glaser, is on the team and gave Terry a ticket. The problem I have is who he went with: He left at daylight with …

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” as he …

Lessons from a Gravedigger Today’s Proverb:  Proverbs 18:9  “The one who is truly lazy in his work is brother to a vandal.” It was the first trip to the cemetery for my two grandsons, Noah and Jude. As we got out of my truck, I knew it wouldn’t be their last.  Life is full of trips to the cemetery. Ages …

“It took the storm to reveal this flaw and it revealed it in an unmistakable, and for the tree, in a fatal way. It kind of reminds me about life. There are plenty of storms in life… many external like a hurricane, while others are internal… but regardless of the location of the storm, it will reveal the internal character …

Uncle Sam: A Horse’s Tale PDF

Today’s Quote: “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” -Publilius Syrus, first century B.C. The importance of knowing who you are and who you aren’t: John told them, “I baptize with* water, but right here in the crowd is someone you do not recognize. 27Though his ministry follows mine, I’m not even worthy to be his slave …

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 …

The tragedy in Norway reminds us that evil and extremism can, and does, exist everywhere. But I’m reminded that for every coward like the killer there are a thousand points of light doing good. Points of light like my Norwegian friend,  Tommy Rasmussen.  We met him last year in eastern Congo.  He had made three recent trips to this war …

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 …

[display_podcast] Click on player to hear Curt read the preface. This is the preface from my book, The Mockingbird’s Song: Essays on the Journey through Depression Preface: The Mockingbird’s Midnight Song “But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.” (Acts 16:25)   It’s the middle of another restless …