The awe of holding Oswald Chambers’ actual Bible.
Holding Oswald Chambers’ Bible: the Book that Changed Many Lives
The awe of holding Oswald Chambers’ actual Bible.
Who Wouldn’t Want to Write about Texas?
Why set a story in Texas? The enormity of possibilities! Countless writers have written about the state from the sprawling Texas by James Michener to the nine novellas in The Texas Brides Collection. The seven writers in this collection have a variety of links to the state. Kathleen Y’Barbo is an Old Three Hundred descendant. Michelle Ule’s ancestor’s arrival ten years later,…
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A Bridal Collaboration: Texas-style!
Texas brides and romance? You bet! Nine of Barbour’s favorite historical fiction novella writers have collaborated on a romance collection with an emphasis on Texas. As the descendent of Texas pioneers, I’ve written a story to include one of my ancestors. The Hanks family of Texas My great-great-great-grandfather, Reverend Thomas Hanks lived in Tennessee in the early part of the…
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Amazing Internet Research: Dolley Madison
Thomas Jefferson was the president of the United States and Dolley Madison was the queen of Federal City society when my great-great-grandfather was born. I can never quite wrap my brain around how young the United States is when I think about that fact. My children knew their great-grandfather–he was 90 years old when my oldest son was born and…
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Amazing Internet Research: Helen Keller
I read Helen Keller’s biography, The Story of My Life, as a child and was inspired by her persistence in overcoming her profound handicaps. Helen was blind and deaf. Many people have enjoyed the stage play and the movie, The Miracle Worker, about Helen Keller’s meeting with Teacher Annie Sullivan and Sullivan’s determination to turn Helen from an animal into a child with dignity. Helen was…
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How to Like a Do-Gooder–in Spite of Yourself
How do you react to a do-gooder? I spent many hours during the end of the last century, hunched in the dark before an antiquated machine with a big hand crank. An eye-glaring microfilm machine light shone through plastic strips with faded squibbles, throwing down shadows before me to make out. After reading microfilm for hours my eyes often hurt, but…
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