February 19, 2018 Danger in Daylight I like to notice things, but sometimes, especially when I’m watching something more important (taking Lucas to the potty) I miss big things. Today we went to a local park to meet some friends and enjoy the afternoon. We had been there about an [...]
February 16, 2018 Garden Lesson Cold, actually cool (we’re in Florida, “cold” means less than 50 degrees), breezes attacked us. Winter means pruning roses, repotting figs, starting seeds in pots, and refreshing the soil in beds for spring sowing, all to prepare the garden for a new crop. Newness. Even [...]
February 15, 2018 Playtime Patterns Normally, Lucas’ idea of “playing trains” is to build a train track with the little tykes track and run every vehicle with wheels on the tracks in a line saying encouraging bits as they crest the one hill. Lately, he has been making patterns. (This [...]
February 11, 2018 Creating Characters: Web of Deception The first of my epic fantasy novels to be published, Web of Deception, has some of my favorite characters. It took over seven years of development and several revisions to complete this work. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so I never [...]
The secret to staying young is by having someone base a character on you! [...]
February 8, 2018 Creating Characters: Brantley Station Saga One of the last set of characters I created were for a youth adventure series called “Brantley Station Saga.” This entire set was built off of one comment by my Dad. He was helping develop a website when he observed, “all of [...]
February 7, 2018 Creating Characters: The Funny Sisters One thing I love about reading is meeting amazing characters! I’ll be feeling the same betrayal and hopelessness that twists into revenge alongside David Balfour as he watches his uncle get smaller as his prison of a ship carries him into unknown [...]
February 5, 2018 Meet Alena Summers Alena Summers is an adventurous animal-loving girl who lives in the village of Covenant. Her home is the planet called Devonia, an Earth-like planet far away where her parents’ transport ship crash landed many years ago. Alena has one brother, Michael, and two sisters, [...]
My preschoolers turn our birthday tradition into color and counting practice for the toddler! :) [...]
Squirmy Worms on a flooded morning = Worm-Savers to the rescue! [...]