Home My good friend, Ryan Jennings, lives in Healdton, Oklahoma. Healdton is a small, oil field town that has seen its fortunes run dry…
How Many Times? When I was a teen growing up in rural Oklahoma where my father pastored a small church, one of my favorite songs…
Talent and Hope in all shapes, sizes…and ages. I've always loved to watch children create. Whether they are building a castle out of Duplos to fend off an impending dragon attack…
He Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth! Dear readers, it is not often that I find that someone else has taken the words out of my mouth. Those of you that…
The Language of Broken Houses Poetry is as much about honesty as it is about emotion and form. For a poem to “work” it must carry within it some…
Why Poetry? As a stay-at-home dad and part-time writer of fiction, I knew that poetry was never going to put me on a best-seller list. I…
The Fear of Failure A little over two years ago, after struggling for some time with the loss of my parents, I decided to put the hurt I…
