Our Writer’s Den stays busy nearly every day, but we are not the kinds of authors that write words like fields are doused with a summer thundershower. Writing takes time, stops and starts, creative periods interlaced with chugging through publishing tasks, and those wonderful creation breaks on the GateWay property. The breaks are what we…
The GateWay Writer’s Den is staying active! The third edition of the biblical creation resource (see my recent blog on it) has now been translated into Spanish. I expect to make a publishing decision soon, but it appears that we have enough users in the US and one other nation to warrant publishing the Spanish…
Taking the time to stop and look at scenes and situations is important to writing. Faylene and I were talking this morning about catching each other watching the other. Sometimes we know it is happening but often one of us is busy while the other one ‘secretly’ watches. It’s been a little over nine years…
Third Edition for Pastors and Church Leaders “A Study of God’s Creation Filled with Purpose, Direction, and Consequence” is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers. (Date of information: March 2026) The primary resource on biblical creation that I developed for my overseas audiences is actually a cell phone application of the…
We were newlyweds in our 60s and getting to know each other as husband and wife in middle of 2017. At the time, I did not know Faylene was a writer, but that changed after I took her on a short trip to see my dad. Visits with my dad, who was in an assisted…
A Writer with a Fire. I did not start as a writer and never intended to be one. Experience and faith can lead to unexpected paths. I entered the Navy decades ago with an aerospace engineering degree, but I was also a young Christian getting my feet wet as I was learning to walk in…
We never intended to live in a standard home again. Having left Virginia shortly after we were married in 2017, a 500 square foot cabin became our US home in West Virginia. The property on which it sat was owned by a daughter and son-in-law. Our frequent trips overseas seemed to be leading us to…