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Is Gun Control The Answer

April 20, 2019Krystine KercherReal Lifeis gun control the answer, remembering Columbine, school shootings, what really needs to change

The Denver Post published an opinion piece this week complaining that little has been done about gun control since the shootings twenty years ago at Columbine High School.

But, is gun control the answer to anything?

I think that we can all agree that the first step to dealing with a problem is to recognize and acknowledge what the problem really is.
Kids used to take guns to school for school-sponsored target shooting events, and they never shot at each other, and there were almost no mass shootings of any kind. Now, guns are the epitome and embodiment of danger and kids aren’t supposed to have access to them, but yet they keep shooting each other.
Hey, Denver Post! How about you do a story on why and how that changed instead of trying to push an anti-guns narrative?

New Years Resolution 2019

December 31, 2018Krystine KercherReal Lifelooking back at 2018, moving forward in the new year, New Years Resolutions for 20194 Comments

My New Years resolution for 2019 is fairly simple: I don’t want the unachievable. I want to look back at the end of 2019 and realize that I not only achieved my goals, I exceeded them. That said, I do have an expanded list of resolutions (see below).
And I wanted to start with a look back at the old year… How did I do?
Looking back, 2018 was another hard year that started out with more wandering about lost in the middle of health issues beating me up and not being able to make much headway financially. This is not going to be a negative, whiny post–I promise!–but I had to say that.
There were huge emotional whammies that had to be faced and dealt with, but I did it and–survived! And I kept going.

My first New Years resolution for 2019 is to keep surviving, to keep getting back up again no matter how many times I get knocked down… and keep going.

There’s No Place Like Home

November 26, 2018Krystine KercherReal LifeDay of the Triffids, ice storm, The Wizard of Oz, there's no place like home, visit to Colorado

I agree with Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz: there’s no place like home! I don’t hate traveling, precisely–but traveling and I just don’t get along as well anymore. That said, I still travel when I have to. Colorado used to be home for us, so it creates this magnetic pull on us that keeps

Why You Should Write What You Love Now

August 7, 2018Krystine KercherBooks and Reading, writingWh, what makes you passionate about writing?, what makes your passion for writing timeless?, write what you love now

Write what you love now because later you may forget all about it. If you don’t write about it now, will you even remember what made it important to you ten years from now? And yet this passion has helped to shape who you are as a person. If you don’t love what you write, why should

End of Summer Reads

August 5, 2018Krystine KercherBooks and Readingend of summer reads, new books, rereading old favorites

What are some of your end of summer reads this year that have kept you turning the pages? I’ll tell you a few books I’ve read lately, and I hope you’ll leave a comment and share some of yours! They don’t have to be new books; they can be old favorites you’re re-reading. Great

Republican Members of Congress: You Are Tumnus

March 23, 2018Krystine KercherChristian Values, Real Lifealway winter and never Christmas in DC, betrayal of conservative values, clean up the swamp, letter to republican members of Congress, you are Tumnus2 Comments

Dear Republican Members of Congress, You are Tumnus.

How many of you have seen The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe from The Chronicles of Narnia? Do you remember that part where Lucy steps through the wardrobe between the pine trees and it’s snowing? Further on there’s a lamp-post. Just as she’s about to turn back, here comes the tap-tap-tapping of hooves, and—a very surprised faun, who drops his packages in fright, then accepts Lucy’s help in picking them up and offers her his umbrella…
He’s shy, a little awkward and flighty, very endearing… And of course Lucy agrees to go home and have tea with him even though he’s an absolute stranger, he’s not even human, and she’s never encountered anyone like him before in her life.

You, dear Republicans, are like Tumnus.

You want of course to be the likeable Tumnus Lucy meets in the wood, but… Tumnus has another side.

Secrets in the Underground Book Review

February 14, 2018Krystine KercherUncategorizedallegory, Author Laurie Penner, Book 2 of the Secrets of Gwenla series, coming of age, Secrets in the Underground, YA fantasy8 Comments

Secrets in the Underground: Book 2 of the Secrets of Gwenla series Author: Laurie Penner Genre: Fantasy, YA, Coming of Age Book blurb: After the fortress walls of Victory Valley fall, Julyiah and Delwyn Sarroll travel on their disappearing horses and encounter new dangers and wonders on the Outside. Coming back to the valley with

A Message of Hope

January 31, 2018Krystine KercherReal Lifea message of hope, Donald Trump, MAGA, state of the union speech 20182 Comments

Did you catch any part of Trump’s first State of the Union speech last night? Wow…wasn’t that an incredible message of hope? I was impressed with the way he singled out the heroes in the audience; with the credit he gave to individuals and to the American people for doing extraordinary things to save lives

Depicting God in Art

January 11, 2018Krystine Kercherwrestling with the spiritualChristian symbols for God, depicting God in art, how God reveals Himself in the Bible, how God reveals Himself in the Old Testament, Progress of Redemption

How do you depict God in art? I’ve wrestled with this for years now… ever since I created my first Progress of Redemption Pictorial Bible Chart for a college class at Columbia International University. I needed to show God as active and involved in the events in the artwork for each story, but–how? In the Old