by krista | Oct 19, 2022 | Christ life, Favorites, Recommended Reading, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Dear Reader, This delightful novel tells the story of one woman’s journey from harsh dependence to loving independence. The End When I taught AP Literature, Jane Eyre was one of my favorite novels to cover. It has it all: strong heroine in a coming-of-age story,...
by krista | Sep 28, 2022 | Favorites, Recommended Reading, Uncategorized
I have loved this book since college. In fact, I took two different Jane Austen courses at University of South Florida. Had they offered more, I would have taken them! I named my oldest daughter after the Austen heroine, Emma (at the time, knowing of no other...
by krista | Sep 19, 2022 | Christ life, Favorites, Recommended Reading
C.S. Lewis’ greatest and least-known work is his final novel, Till We Have Faces. This novel is a combination of everything Lewis loved, and it is his fiction writing at its most glorious and most mature. Based on the myth of Cupid and Psyche, the novel’s protagonist...
by krista | Dec 30, 2014 | Favorites, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
This is TOUGH, folks. I read a lot, and I like most of what I read (if I don’t like it after 50 pages, I stop reading). So I limited this list to what I read most: Christian fiction. And it is in no particular order. I loved, loved, loved all these stories!...
by krista | Dec 24, 2014 | Christ life, Christmas, Favorites, Uncategorized
About that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire. This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for. So Joseph went from the Galilean town of...
by krista | Dec 13, 2014 | Christmas, Favorites, Movies, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
I love Christmas movies! Our family tradition is to save these films for the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s — no Christmas music or movies any other time of year. So when we finally get to pull these out — woo-hoo! We go crazy....
