Writing With Kids – as Much Fun as Writing For Them!

This year, I’m teaching two creative writing classes at our homeschool co-op. The first class is geared towards middle schoolers and is designed to get their descriptive juices flowing. We talk about choosing their words so carefully that the reader will “see” exactly what they’re trying to convey. We cover a lot of grammar in that class, too. The second class is intended more for high...

Are Those Stretch Marks I See?

After carrying four children, only one of whom weighed less than eight pounds at birth (one was nine pounds), it’s reasonable to assume that I have my share of stretch marks. And fortunately for the rest of the world, I keep them covered up. J But over the past few years, I’ve stretched in other ways as well — positive ways, ways that God has orchestrated to prepare me to do...