Since my blog is geared towards discussing the great creators and their works of art, I want to begin by introducing the greatest creator the world has ever known–Elohim, the one and only true Creator. The very first verse in the Bible introduces Him as such when it says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 (ESV) This leaves no doubt as to who the the first creator was. Before the first man breathed or put his will to art, God was creat

It’s a thousand pages, give or take a few I’ll be writing more in a week or two I can make it longer if you like the style I can change it ‘round and I want to be a paperback writer. Paperback writer."      These few lines in the Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” stood out to me. It isn’t just because I relate to the song, but because there is a lesson to be learned here. Upon a single listen, it is clear that the narrator is desperate to be an author. Besides the fact that he nee

It's hard to believe it's been exactly a year since I published "My Top Ten Movies of 2024" . I watched a lot of movies this year. I watched movies like Frozen  that, yes, I had never seen before, and How to Train your Dragon: Live Action  that was the first new movie I'd seen in a theatre in quite a long time. (The last one was quite possibly Incredibles 2 ; I won't confirm this, however.)      Unlike last year, where I had to remember as many movies as I could, I made a li

Similar to other seasonal posts, I have another blog tag challenge for this winter/Christmas time! I'm super excited to share this, and I hope you enjoy reading it just as much as I enjoyed thinking about the answers and filling them out. You can read my summer blog tag here , my autumn one here and last Christmas's blog tag here! Thank you so much for tagging me, Julie . Rules (because you can't Participate without Them) Acknowledge who tagged you ✅ Answer the questio

Recently, (and I hope to your great delight) I read a few of my very oldest stories to my siblings. I say stories because in an hour or less, there was time for a great many of them. A full story was about 800 words (usually fewer)---half of what I write on a good day now. A year ago, when I shared my very first story , unedited with comments from yours truly, I received some pretty interested readers. Hopefully this story will be just as funny! And remember, no matter

Today, I'm excited to welcome a fellow young writer to my blog! When Christopher approached me about writing this article, following the publication of my Beowulf in the Lord of the Rings , I was happy to accept. The article was enlightening, and I learned a lot! I hope you do too. * Following Autumn’s article on the connections between Tolkien and Beowulf , I realized that a similar connection existed between two of my favourite stories: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader,  by

Today, I get to interview one of my favourite artists, a woman who actually lives on my street! I have known her since I was eight, and she has been a very big inspiration to me! She has encouraged me by buying me supplies and by giving me suggestions and opinions as she looks through my work. For my birthday one year, she gave me a beautiful painting that I keep hanging right by my desk. It's such a precious present to me. :) Well, you've seen what she can do, now on to

Today, I'm very happy to be featuring a poem by a fellow blogger (who also happens to be my aunt!) I've been wanting to do a Thanksgiving post, but search my brain as I might, I couldn't think of anything. Then, when Carolyn Joy posted this poem the other day, I knew I'd found what I was looking for! If you enjoy poetry , hers is definitely a good blog to check out. She also critiques the times and does Bible studies, but my favourite are her poems. The reason tha

A post by my good friend, Leah Grace. "Art was never really my thing. With the exception of occasional crafts done with my sisters, I didn’t ever get into painting or drawing. The reason for this is simple: I wasn’t good at it, so I didn’t enjoy it.  But I discovered something special when I began bullet journaling in September of 2024. You don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it. When we let go of insecurity, then it doesn’t matter whether or not we’re good

Quite recently, I have opened up my old notebooks and begun reliving the stories that haunted my life four years ago. I was an aspiring author (you can read about how I started writing here ), and I was in that infamous stage of "You don't know you don't know." My stories were fraught with random emotional outbursts (probably a result of something that had just happened during my day.) Plot twists were unforeseeable at best, unbelievable at worst. Dark and light clashed in pa