Homeschool Fiction

Yes, it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted anything on this website. It’s all good though! Fantastic in fact! It’s been a whirlwind of excitement in my household for months now: 2 books published, several trips, activities galore, and much more!
I have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving day!  Here are [...]

As of today, all of the illustrations for my upcoming children’s chapter book, Wright on Time: ARIZONA, Book 1, are completed! I’ve been working on the website, adding new things each day. Please sign up for the newsletter!
While we all impatiently wait for the book to be available for sale, I’ll be posting little [...]

Nearly a year after announcing my Wright on Time books series on Do Life Right, I am now proud to announce that Wright on Time: ARIZONA, Book 1 is in the queue to be published in July 2009.
I have been having a blast finalizing all the nitty gritty details.  I’m currently working on the final [...]

We’re huge Indiana Jones fans around here; we all loved the new movie (I thought it was the best one yet) and we’ve been working our way through The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume One - The Early Years, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Two - The War Years, and The Adventures [...]

There is only one place in the United States of America where four states all touch. Here are a few photos of my family there. The states are Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. There is a charge to visit it, but it’s free if you show up when they are right [...]

All of the following photographs were taken by me at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in central Utah near Price in late May, 2008. To see more photos of the quarry (not of flowers), see “Exploring Dinosaurs in Utah PART TWO”.

After Price, we made our way to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. If you plan on staying the night, the closest town with a motel is Price, about 30 miles to the north. As we zig-zagged our way through tiny towns, we enjoyed seeing the way the locals lived. Open range cows grazed the land and [...]

My family recently went on a trip to Northern Arizona and Southeastern and Central Utah to explore dinosaur bones. We actually ended up going to more of Utah than we’d originally intended. It is a fantastic state. The terrain changes drastically, much more than any other single state we’ve been to. [...]

Here are the answers to yesterday’s photographs.
The first crater is the Barringer Crater, located between Flagstaff and Winslow, Arizona. It was most likely formed by a nickel-iron meteorite. This crater is amazing to see!
The second crater is Upheaval Dome Crater located in the northern part of Canyonlands National Park just outside of Moab, [...]