Author Archives: Kit and Drew Coons

They don’t care whether you live or die, I thought. Several weeks ago moving our stored furniture required Kit and me to cross the country as the pandemic worsened. The general disregard for masks and social distancing on display in … Continue reading →

“What will we do now?” we had asked ourselves. FamilyLife announced moving from Little Rock nearly a year ago. Almost immediately we began a “last grand adventure.” Eleven difficult and sometimes hazardous months later we have a new home and … Continue reading →

A lot of readers have loved our wholesome novels. We hope you’re among them. If so, you’ll be happy that we finally published the next Dave and Katie mystery and adventure, Challenge in the Golden State. Moving and the pandemic … Continue reading →

Kit and I have been in transition for seven months now and homeless for eleven weeks. We’ve been in many Covid 19 threatening situations we couldn’t avoid. Both of us are at high-risk should we contract the virus. Drew with … Continue reading →

Previously, we wrote about the hyper-hot real estate market in Washington. We managed to react in a few hours–before most of the competition–to a new listing. We had to outbid only one other buyer. Even so, we paid an insane … Continue reading →

Because of Covid 19 I haven’t been to a barber in four months. No problem! I had cut my own hair while a starving graduate student at Georgia Tech. Then I cut my hair while a missionary–again starving–in Nigeria. Now–although … Continue reading →

Washington is more wonderful than we had anticipated. Towering alpine forests, profuse wild flowers, clear rivers, and blue skies–that is between rain showers–make the state irresistibe. Most days we catch glimpses of snow covered mountains. Mysterious dark waters lie between … Continue reading →

In a few hours, Kit and I will start our migration to the Pacific Northwest roughly along the Oregon Trail followed by 1840s pioneers. In four-to-six months, they traveled 2,170 miles across deserts, raging rivers, and mountain ranges to begin … Continue reading →

We want to update our friends on our journey. Who am I kidding? I really want to show you a picture of my fish. This is a smallmouth bass. I actually caught five today in Arkansas’ Buffalo River. We’ve holed … Continue reading →

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken has been debated since being published in 1915. Was Frost advocating following … Continue reading →