Faith, Fiction, Friends

The name  John Fremont  (1813-1890) evokes images of  Manifest Destiny , exploration of the western United States, the first Republican cand...

Recently, my wife and I visited the   Missouri Civil War Museum . I’d heard about it from an online friend, but we’d never visited. It sits ...

I’m reading  Your Daughter’s Country , the recent poetry collection by the Missouri-based poet  John Dorsey , and I’m thinking to mysel...

I’m reading the poems of  The Inheritance   by poet and photographer  Justin Hamm , and I realize how easy it would be to say “rural po...

It’s September 1865. The Civil War had ended but its effects linger. Some men have come home from the war; others have not. For Emilie ...

The Missouri Ozarks is a distinct region within the state of Missouri, yet geographically indistinguishable from the Arkansas Ozarks. I...

Yesterday, I reviewed Litany of Secrets by Luke Davis – the first in what I hope is a long line of mystery stories featuring Cameron ...

The older I become, the more I see my own story in the story of others. I didn’t grow up on a farm; I wasn’t one of six or seven children; ...