The End

The End I was a beaten man! There was nothing left! No wife! No children! No job! The only clothes I owned were covering my body. The black ashes that were once my house had an acrid, gagging odor, mixed with the smells of fire-fighting liquids, dampness, and death. How does one describe a body […]

When a Leader…

When a Leader… When a leader denies the urges of greed and trappings of gold to do what is right for the nation he leads, the people will always win. When a leader stands by what he/she knows to be morally right, when a soft compromise does not damage the true essence of a law, […]

Mission of Love and Pain

Mission of Love and Pain She gripped the steering wheel tightly, causing some erratic drifting across the south-bound lanes of the Interstate. “You okay?” her husband asked. “You’re weaving.” He was in a lucid mood, and her heart and mind were frantic in their tangled states. “I’m fine, honey…just a little tense about the upcoming […]

Running on Emptiness

Buy Now http://www.goo.gl/8vP1Qs NEW! ON AMAZON NOW! The Book: Running on Emptiness is Book 4 of John Dolan’s ‘Time, Blood and Karma’ series, and, for me, it is the quintessential example of this Englishman’s wordsmith mastery. Running on Emptiness has government coups, an exciting ‘Capulets and Montagues’ – Romeo and Juliet element – with two […]

Sadness and Smiles

Sadness and Smiles Christmas season brings a spiritual subtlety of kindness and giving, minds somehow thawing from a year of national and international turmoil, a bleakness that the heart and soul rejects for this magical time when most of us honor the birthday of Jesus…the Man, the Deity, who lived among us and brought Faith […]

A Dialogue

A Dialogue Our chat had been friendly and neighborly for some time as we shared a libation. He had come to welcome me to the area, I thought. Or, was it to check me out, to delve more deeply into the kind of person I was? “What kind of books do you write?” he ultimately […]

Follow Me

Follow Me “Follow me!” the voice was gentle, soft, and somehow compelling. The lovely lady with blue eyes and long waves of golden hair blinked in her drowsy state. Shelley slowly opened widely her eyes and rose from the hammock on the hill near the big house. A few trees dotted the landscape on the […]

Faith

Faith   Faith With what amazing gift of wisdom do some mortals pronounce, ‘There is no God’? Do they reference the singular advances of science to promote their minority position among the peoples of the world? Do they not perceive the same exactitude of wonders these aging eyes and all my senses have gathered in […]

The Essence of Faith

The Essence of Faith The freshly painted clapboard church sat near a small creek, its white purity glorified by the neatly trimmed hedges surrounding it and the smell of newly mowed grass. The four big oak trees on the church property added a symmetrical elegance to the pastoral scene. Four Oaks Baptist Church, lined up […]

Conversation With Jacob

  Conversation With Jacob Jacob is my imaginary friend but he is real to me because he is my resource for living. Today we are sitting on the long deck of my log home, watching the squirrels scurry through the trees, up and down, and all around. An occasional bird drops by as if to […]