Posted on October 7th, 2025

Ohio is known for being round on the ends and high in the middle, but is not as well remembered for the role water has played in its and the country’s history. 

Lake Erie (nicknamed by current-day Ohioans as “the north shore”) was the …

Posted on July 25th, 2025

My new book, The Saddlebag Preacher of Pike County, has just been released. Yea!

It has been a labor of love to craft a story based loosely on my mother's remembrances of her beloved grandmother, Cynthia, for whom I'm named.

Mom was ver…

Posted on July 3rd, 2025

The Saddlebag Preacher of Pike County is set rural Southern Ohio in the 1850s. Ohio produced many talented novelists and poets but most of them either weren’t born or did not achieve recognition until later in the 1800s. A significant exc…

Posted on July 3rd, 2025

Step into the 1850s to learn more about the setting of The Saddlebag Preacher of Pike County, and the world in which our protagonist, Rev. Jacob Chandler, lived and conducted his ministry. It was a history-in-the-making time. The Ohio Can…