About

I am a Christian, husband, father, and writer, in that order. I am also a retired teacher, pilot, home owner (mortgage payer), pet keeper (four dogs), leaf blower, chief early morning coffee brewer, and like to write. Actually, all of 2017 and for the first two months of 2018, we were apartment dwellers since our home in The Highlands neighborhood of Tuscaloosa, Alabama burned down Jan. 9, 2017. We moved into our new home, built where the old one had to be demolished after the fire, early March, 2018. I contribute a column to substack.com on a weekly basis. All of those columns–sometimes the longer versions–are also published on this blog. I also contribute a column each week to the Northport (Alabama) Gazette. My last history book is a long biography of a Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566). He became the greatest protector of American Indians in the face of the Spanish conquest. That book is Bartolomé de las Casas: A Biography (2012) published by Cambridge University Press.