Faith, Fiction, Friends

When I began to write my historical novel  Brookhaven , my jumping off point was a family story. My father often told me about my great-gran...

The writing of my historical novel  Brookhaven  took about 150 years.  I must have seen something like this before, but I can’t recall a spe...

I learned a very hard lesson while writing a historical novel. I learned how hard it can be, and it’s hard for both the research you do and ...

Oral history may not be particularly trustworthy.   My father was four years old when his paternal grandfather died, so any direct memories ...

More than 40 years ago, my father gave me the Young Family Bible. It had been given to him by his father, who’d received it from his father....