About Me

 The Homestretch blog is curated by author Jim Yackel. He is the writer of the the Wayfarers Stories, which is fiction book series plotted around the biblical End-Times available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon. These tales of warning, revelation, dreams, visions, family, and perhaps a touch of romance are staged in upstate New York and center around the old Erie Canal and its towpath.

Jim enjoys fishing, music, radio as a means of communication, and watching world events that could portend the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.



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