Join me tonight for a night of fun at the Facebook party and live chat for my new book By the Light of the Silvery Moon. I will be giving away lots of books and gift certificates so you don’t want to miss it! We will start the fun at 7PM CT and go for… [Continue Reading]
Titanic
How Do You Know if a Story Idea is a Keeper?
I have to laugh when people ask me how I got the idea for my novel By the Light of the Silvery Moon. The idea is nearly as old as my son…who will be graduating from high school this year! It started as a contemporary telling of the Prodigal Son story from the Bible. In… [Continue Reading]
Tame Thoughts for Sinking Ships (i.e. Stop Being Stubborn in Your Parenting)
Have you ever been stubborn about your parenting? Stubborn about a schedule, or activity, or method of discipline that doesn’t work? I’m sure you haven’t. Maybe it’s just me. But if you’ve been stubborn just once you might want to keep reading. It’s easy to be stubborn. We put time into figuring out what will… [Continue Reading]
Journeying On The Titanic
Head on over to the Homeschool Convention blog where I guest posted earlier this week on our trip to the Titanic Attraction in Branson, Missouri! ~~~ Want more about the Titanic? Check out my new book: By the Light of the Silvery Moon! Amelia Gladstone’s hopes are tied up in the Titanic–hopes for a reunion… [Continue Reading]
Lifeboats | Guest Post by Halee Matthews
{source} It’s been a part of my life since I first picked up my easy-reading book. I poured through the pages in fascination. I couldn’t get enough of it. What a thing it was, the R.M.S. Titanic. Like a palace on the water, it elegantly awaited its first of many unsinkable voyages. The engineers proudly… [Continue Reading]
A Distance of 100 Years | Guest Post by Kim Hall
As the Titanic slipped beneath the waves that tragic night 100 years ago, on a continent far away, in a small town in Vermont, my great-grandmother was laboring to bring her baby girl into the world. Marion Wakfield and Mother Understandably, the calamitous reports of the tremendous loss of life completely overshadowed the news of… [Continue Reading]
The Story Behind By The Light of the Silvery Moon
One of my favorite sandwiches is peanut butter and jelly. It’s a perfect mix of salty and sweet, and I have to wonder who thought of it first? When did those two tastes collide? Just like a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich, there are times with two things fit together to create something wonderful…. [Continue Reading]
Titanic Love Stories
Even in horrific events such as the Titanic disaster amazing stories emerge. Stories of heroics, stories of survival, and even stories of love. There were over a dozen newly married couples on board the grand ship, and many more couples who were impacted by the tragedy. Among those are these touching stories of love. {… [Continue Reading]
Will You Be A John Harper? | Christine Beebe
{source} In the murky darkness of the ocean bottom, shrouded in mystery and rusticles, Titanic lives out her days — distant, but not forgotten. The serenity and order that surrounds her belies the great tragedy that sent this majestic ship to its final resting place. A cup standing on an upright washstand and neatly stacked… [Continue Reading]
The Titanic Exhibition | Bethany LeBedz
Source: titanicbranson.com via Tricia on Pinterest A beautiful young lady greets us as we approach the one-of-a-kind, unsinkable, floating palace. She directs us to the ticket office where our party of three receives a first-class ticket for me, a second-class ticket for my teenager, and a third-class ticket for my husband. We climb aboard the… [Continue Reading]