John A. Heldt

For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to books about World War II. From Gordon Prange's At Dawn We Slept , which I read in co...

"Writing the last page of the first draft," author Nicholas Sparks once observed, "is the most enjoyable moment in writing. ...

Like many Baby Boomers, I have always thought of grandparents as older people. Women who sit in rocking chairs and knit sweaters. Men who te...

According to Alan Cohen, author of more than twenty inspirational books and CDs, "There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest....

There is nothing like visiting the scene of a scene to stir the senses and get a genuine feel for a time and place. I should know. I have do...

I had originally planned this one for August. That was back in the tentative days of October, when I thought I would need ten months to plan...

It remains one of the most troubling chapters in U.S. history. In the spring of 1942, more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, most...

Like my brother-in-law, who can trace his lineage to the Mayflower , and millions of others, I am a fan of genealogy. For many years, I taug...

I exceeded Stephen King's ninety-day limit on drafts and departed from my "plotter" outline on more than one occasion, but in ...

For me, the comma has always been the most problematic of punctuation marks. As a newspaper reporter in the 1980s and 1990s, I was taught to...