Just a ways back was the release of my latest novel Then . . . you. Here are two of the vehicles used in this story:                  …

    Think of them: what they convey, what they sound like, what they mean, how you react to them. The incredible power of words. Take these: Said . . . snapped, snorted, smirked, snitched, sounded, sneered, sarcastically, snipped, scandalized  Go for it. Pick a word.    Father, you are the Creator. Anything good in…

          The fabulous Supremes back in the day. So many great songs. This is one of many.   Father, you give gifts and talents to all of creation, benevolence to all of us, fallen, stained and corrupted by sin, and yet you love us all. Thank you is never enough. In…

            As a reader it probably doesn't occur to you why certain authors' books aren't selling. If you like their novels, you buy them. If you don't, you don't.  But as an author, I do wonder. A very talented author friend of mine and I were talking about this very…

  I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues – last, because with them God's wrath is completed. And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and his image…

                                        List your 5 favorites: Novels (We all have more than five, I know, but let's pick a genre and list 5 favorites in that genre [other than our own if we write them])  Foods  Flowers…

We lived here for 30 years. It was rural when we moved in. Just shy of 3 acres, a two-story three-bedroom home, our first. It is no more. We and our five neighbors sold to a developer because the housing developments were closing in on us. Had to say good-bye to (and buried) 3 beloved…

                                                      Can't Stop Me is the latest standalone novel from James Scott Bell. Not really a re-make of his original No Legal Grounds from 2007, Bell has kept that…

              May you have a God-blessed 4th of July in the real United States of America.    Father, this is still your One Nation under God. Rescue us one more time. Please. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.   

                  As we approach Independence Day, there are many interpretations of freedom. I wanted to look at what freedom is not.  Freedom is not doing whatever you want to do because if everyone did whatever they wanted to do, they would definitely be infringing upon someone else's…