Our pastor this Sunday was discussing “The Purpose Driven Life” where the author used the illustration of a baseball diamond as the progression of a…
What IS life like? A box of chocolates? Sweet, yummy, melts in the sun? A bag of chips? Salty and filling but leaves your hands…
From the beginning of time, there has been evil. What is evil? The opposite of good, some would say. But to eradicate anything not good…
I understand about survival of the fittest. I can comprehend that the weakest will be picked off by the strongest, the biggest goes after the…
The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on someone’s head to…
As with the rest of the world, I am reeling over the loss of (in my opinion) one of the best comedians I’ve ever known.…
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of the dream. William Shakespeare I like that. Of course I do, I picked it…
I was so honored today to have seen this amazing article written about me and my children’s books. I just wanted to share it with…
Poetry, to me, is a very memorable form of storytelling. Like music, when your favorite song comes on, it’s not only the beat and the…
Have you heard of MagicBlox? If not, let me tell you about them. In 2009 MagicBlox set out to provide quality ebooks for children 1-13…
Here is a picture of me, a crazy tourist in Ohio, standing in front of a huge field of corn… Hey, I’m from Texas, we’ve…
I realize that adding the scripture may have been an unpopular decision. Adding any scripture to a children’s book that I hope to get into…
John 3:16 – God gave his only son… That scripture has always meant so much to so many. But the other day, I had an…
In a recent trip to see my grandfather I came across an old booklet on his shelf. “Portraits of Bygone Days” by Bessie J. Hemp…
In Memory of SMURPHY My Beloved Son Smurphy was a red-haired golden retriever that was left, abandoned by the mail boxes in our neighborhood. When…
PAWS for Friendship Canyon Lake, TX – Award-winning author, Kathleen J. Shields, releases her latest Hamilton Troll book with the objective of stopping bullies, before…
The other day I came across this picture and I just had to share it – yet I decided to add in my own two…
If you want to know something, you ask about it. If you don’t understand, you ask questions. That’s what Hamilton Troll and Elwood Woodpecker did,…
The other day, while at a tradeshow, I met a couple who taught me something that was way too neat. I had to share it…
Of all of the reasons, of all of the people, of all of the pictures, and all of the messages… Memorial Day…
I’ll do it tomorrow. Tomorrow is only a day away. But by the time tomorrow gets here it is already today and so we have…