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Want to Appreciate the Arts? Don’t Be Afraid to Fail

Advice to the Class of 2024: Mutt It Up

Yes, Our Health and Wellness Matters, Too

Hope in the Imperfect

An Evangelizing Mom’s Revival Guide

All Those Immoral People

Intimacy in the Virtual Age

Getting Back the Pro-Life Stick

Beauty on the Outside

Preparing for Peace

What is Your Doggy Door?

Making the Case for Sacred Tradition

A Father Who Knows Best

The Silver Lining between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

SCREENPLAYS

(Pre-Production)

MAGIC CITY RISING: When a young woman realizes the influence of the Klu Klux Klan is closer than she thinks, she finds solace in one priest’s ultimate sacrifice. Quarterfinalist in the International Faith in Film Festival 2025. Nominated for Best Script at the 2026 International Christian Music and Film Festival.

FORTY DAYS:When a reformed womanizer aspiring for the priesthood and a skeptical teacher are challenged to 40 days in a relationship, they embark on a quirky journey of self-discovery. Selected as finalist in Chicago Script Awards Spring 2025; Selected in Atlanta’s Women in Film Festival 2025; Selected for the 2026 International Christian Music and Film Festival

THE VEGAS STRETCH: When a strait-laced Catholic school teacher learns her beloved school is shutting down, she teams up with a quirky substitute for a chaotic gamble in Vegas that proves sometimes the biggest miracles follow the biggest risks.Nominated for Best Script at the 2026 International Christian Music and Film Festival.

FICTION/POETRY

“Fools.” Alalit.com. Summer 2006. Alabama Writer’s Conclave. 30 Aug. 2006. (Alabama Writer’s Conclave Best Fiction Award 2006). http://alalit.com/pdf/alalitcom.pdf.

“The Moment Before.” Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters (http://www.sfc.edu/uploaded/documents/publications/AssisiV3I1_2.pdf)  

“My Suns.” Birmingham Arts Journal. 3.3: 2006.  http://jimreedbooks.com/pdf/baj3-3.pdf“Home.” We are ND: The Best Years of our Life. Ed. Angela Sienko. Ireland: Booklink, 2008. 144 (purchased at http://www.amazon.com/We-Are-ND-Angela-Sienko/dp/0955409748).

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES

Overturning Roe Allows Alabama to Decide for Itself

Reflections on the Meaning of Woman

Instead of a Return to Normal Let’s Try for Better

There are More Important Things than Covid

A Great Opportunity in the Great Resignation

CASEL Demonstrates the Limits of Social Emotional Learning

When Congress Fails the Gilligan’s Island Test

A Toast to Nostalgia