Reflecting in Elim
Our travelers walk from the eastern shore of the Red Sea three days into the desert only to find bitter…
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Yavapai Dances
Among our time travelers is a sibling group (Zach, age 10, and twins, Helena and Yelena, age 9) who are…
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Plants of Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
After our travelers cross the Red Sea, they find themselves in what is the northwest corner of modern day Saudi…
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The Stations of the Exodus
As I sat down to write about my characters’ time in Elim, I realized I needed to decide how long…
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My Sources in Order
Where does my source material come from? With a novel adapted from history and known texts, the framework comes from…
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A Gay Old Time
Every single society ever has had members who fall in love with people deemed the wrong gender for them (or…
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Honoring Your Parents
If the ten commandments are Torah distilled, then each of the ten is vitally important and reflects far more than…
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The Teachings of Marah
The once bitter, now sweet, waters of Marah aren’t just a place for the Hebrews to refresh their water barrels…
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Turquoise
A sky blue gemstone found in only a few places in the world. Including Egypt and Arizona. Turquoise is a…
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From the Red Sea to Marah
Once our travelers cross the Red Sea and find themselves on the Arabian Peninsula, they watch the Egyptian soldiers drown,…
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Crossing the Red Sea
Our Exodus travelers are at Pi-Hahiroth, at the western shores of the Red Sea. They look out to the east,…
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Voices in My Head
Hearing voices in modern culture is almost always diagnosed as some sort of mental illness. Ditto seeing things that aren’t…
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How to Speak Like a Baptist
Two of my point of view characters are siblings Phoebe and Malcolm. Their dad, Irving, has (non-practicing) Jewish parents. Their…
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Baptist Church Life: Houston and Beyond
This post contains foundational research which I use in the followup, How to Speak Like a Baptist. The Baptist Faith…
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Song of the Sea
The Children of Israel have all safely crossed the Red Sea. The Egyptian army is close behind. Before any of…
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The Mosquito Fleet of Galveston
Galveston and Galveston Bay is a long-standing shrimping area just south of Houston, Texas. The rich marine resources of Galveston…
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How Far Can an Army Throw?
Along the dry path between the walls of water that pass through the Red Sea, the last group of Hebrews…
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The Morning Watch
Instead of using modern hours and minutes, the Ancient day was broken up into descriptive chunks of time. The nighttime…
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Exodus Timekeeping
My time travelers, naturally, think of time in hours and minutes. One of them even has a digital watch. But…
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Sing! Sing a Song
I am looking for songs or sung prayers that might have existed in the pre-Exodus period. To be used by…
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