by krista | Oct 24, 2023 | Christ life, Uncategorized
AI has come upon educators like a tsunami. Students now have the ability to type in a prompt and get a fully completed essay, report, or answer to a math problem. It’s not that cheating hasn’t existed before now, but it’s just so easy these days. I...
by krista | Oct 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
I was watching a show last night where the main characters were trying to prove the evolutionary theory of abiogenesis – the idea that life can come from non-life: something can come from nothing. It’s a crucial question for the evolutionists – their...
by krista | Oct 16, 2023 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized, Writing
I haven’t written in several months. Honestly, blogs are going the way of the dinosaur, so the demand for blog posts are pretty low. Probably about as much need for those as there are for new books out in the world. I realized, though, that I miss writing here....
by krista | Mar 3, 2023 | book review, classics, Uncategorized
America in the 1920s experienced massive changes at a rapid pace: Between the Great War and the Spanish Flu, millions of people died suddenly. There were battles against alcohol, which resulted in Prohibition on one side and rampant black market speakeasies on the...
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...