When someone asks me, “What’s it like to author a book?” My typical response is that it’s fun. That tends to lead to more questions. I think that’s because to most folks “fun” is not an expected answer. There is a great article about that. Whatever job I had, I would try to make it […]
The challenging work is done. It’s in the publisher’s hands now. The long wait begins. It’s not on Amazon yet, but it will be a pre-sale item soon. It’s hard to believe this is my fourth book. It makes me wonder what some of my teachers in high school might say! Surprise, surprise. #oldguywritesbooks #undone […]
Why write books? Well, I’m an author and that’s what authors do. But the answer is much deeper than that. I want people to read my books and see themselves on the pages. Hopefully, they will see pieces of their lives in them and connect with the message. I love it when I read a […]
Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) When a baby takes the first step, it’s a mixture of things that might be considered opposites. The first step is tenuous yet bold because there is no outright fear. The step looks weak, yet it is strong. It’s delicate yet determined, and it’s unsure, but it’s also convincing. …dream […]
Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) The phrase “a leap of faith” originated in the mid-1800s but gained popularity in the 1900s. It comes from the Latin word “saltus fidei,” which Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard coined. He used it as a metaphor for religious belief in God. As it applies to this issue of your taking […]
Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) If you continue to doubt that you can author that book burning within you, you might start to consider that the noise in your mind is just two opposing voices clamoring for your attention. As you have seen from some of the previous posts in this series, one voice is […]
Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) The orange cube in the picture is a stumbling block. Because it is cube-shaped, it has six sides. Imagine that each side has a different word or phrase imprinted on it. Most are predicated on something I wrote about previously, fear. Here are some of the phrases that were on […]
A piece beautifully written and shared by a dear friend. Used with permission. My beautiful wife Lin and I love taking vacations forty miles north of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in an area called Cherry Grove, just south of the North Carolina border. Along the peaceful, picturesque, white sandy beaches of a place we call […]
Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) Most people consider writing or contemplating their first book a huge risk. As I wrote my first one, A Better Man, Husband, Father, I inwardly felt like I was jumping off the cliff of sanity into the pit of gloom. The fear that I held when I first thought about […]
I wrote the book above because I am convinced that most of us tend to put God in a box. I have shared about the box I often put Him in. That box is labeled “Old Testament.” Thus, the picture that conjured up in my mind was that He was cold, distant, and unapproachable. The […]