June 19, 2018 Meet Kalam Tevortae We’re going to meet another fictional character today. Kalam Tevortae began as a small part in the story, Web of Deception, but when my little brother became interested enough to actually listen to my odd world, Kalam took on more of my brother’s traits [...]
June 16, 2018 Biblical Film Adaptations In this world, the entertainment industry often gets inspiration or ideas from books to transform into movies. Of course, as a writer, I like to point out to the girls that every movie started as the written word (aka written or typed scripts). One [...]
May 4, 2018 Family Fun Fest 2018! We spent all day on April 28, 2018, a beautiful Saturday in Saint Augustine, at the Family Fun Fest. This annual event at Francis Field supports the community work of Alpha Omega Maternity Home and their related outreaches. Alpha Omega has been a [...]
April 27, 2018 Goodbye Spring! Jaquline says “goodbye spring!” as we drop Christina and Rebeccah at their final exam. “Goodbye spring?” I ask. “Yes, goodbye spring classes,” Jaquline laughs. “Now we have summer classes!” I smile. Yes, today is the final day of spring classes for the dual enrollment students. [...]
April 18, 2018 Looking for Positive Sometimes it is hard to stay positive. I’d like to believe that I’m always thinking about how whatever I experience is working toward God’s glory and find a positive attitude, but that just isn’t reality. It is still a struggle for me to not [...]
April 14, 2018 Any Book is Curriculum In our homeschool curriculum, we have base books that everyone has to go through. These are standards like Arithmetic and Language Arts. I add vocabulary workbooks to teach etymology. Once etymology is learned, the student usually finds spelling and vocabulary far easier so [...]
April 12, 2018 Homeschooling Challenge: Their Own Pace One of the challenges I’ve discovered in our home school journey comes from my philosophy to never keep one student back for another. I allow them to advance at their own pace – if this means we spend eight weeks constantly studying [...]
March 28, 2018 New Story Release! Yippee! My illustrator team (Christina and Rebeccah) did some awesome cover art again! This time for the fourth story in The Devonians series! It’s currently available in ebook and paperback format. The Devonians are space castaways who have developed a colony on a strange [...]
March 24, 2018 “War Room” Thoughts Have you seen “War Room?” If not, please do so! It’s a wonderful movie that my children watch at least once every week or so. Miss Clara is their favorite character. Just in case you haven’t seen it, I’ll give you a tiny run [...]
New Release! Paperback version of "The Princess and the Swans" is now available! [...]