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The better the story, the more that the reader is moved — to tears, laughter, or action. Not all tales are happy ones and we wouldn’t wish some stories on anyone, but a reader knows when he has been touched […]

I read a wonderful book a couple of years ago titled How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World.  It begins with this statement: “The world is going to hell.”  The author […]

Last Friday night Nadine and I were awake past 3:00a.  It wasn’t that we couldn’t sleep.  We were watching the latest installments in the sagas of Spiderman and the Men In Black at the Skyline Drive-In Theater near Shelbyville, IN. […]

As part of my literary life, I launched an online bookstore at Biblio.com. You can find it at the address at the end of this article. My strategy is to take a chance with old hardbacks I find at yard […]

In memorable fiction, the setting often carries the impact of an additional character.  Think of the Island in Lost or the southern town of Maycomb in To Kill a Mockingbird or the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. This happens in […]

Something amazing happens when one person gives serious attention to another person’s story.  This interests me for this is my profession as a healthcare chaplain.  It is also interests me as a husband, father, brother and friend who longs for […]

I do different things as a healthcare chaplain. For example, every Wednesday I read to a group of geriatric patients. These men and women are at least 65 years old and are receiving care for psychiatric conditions. Most of them […]

An emporium.  A place where ancient traders conducted business in territories not their own.  Whether it was the Hittites, the Egyptians, or the Phoenicians, an emporium was a market of mystery — a casbah of conundrums if you will — […]

On a recent trip to a nephew’s wedding my wife and I took the slow road (US 421) from Greensburg, IN to Midway, KY. Around noon, we came to the small town of Osgood, IN. Osgood has a rail line […]

I have worked as a chaplain at Hancock Health for fifteen years now. Every week I will pass by this call board at least a dozen times on my way to seeing patients or working on projects. A few days […]