Author Archives: Kit and Drew Coons

Fifty years ago I was a young engineer from a small town in Alabama living in California. In 1973, I redesigned a launch pad at Cape Kennedy to accommodate a more powerful Delta Rocket. NASA used that facility to put … Continue reading →

Kit in Africa Another article by Kit has been published by Cru Staff Women around the world. Just click in this link Forgiveness Changes Loves. Note: This stays on our website and is safe.

Genuine Transylvanian mythology isn’t the silly genre created for western entertainment. The folklore of the Carpathian Mountains can be more sinister and threatening, especially in a story that treats ancient beliefs and fears as reflecting demonic activity. Missionary and the … Continue reading →

Not only do we get to write but we also sell our novels at Christmas fairs. Readers from previous fairs come up to thank us. Some pester us for sequels. Each wholesome novel we sell carries a positive message. Our … Continue reading →

Opps! We haven’t posted a blog since August. We’ve been rather busy for FamilyLife by making a trip to Romania, leading a marriage seminar in WA, and updating seven training manuals. We also finished our 7th novel and successfully dealt … Continue reading →

I graduated from Auburn University fifty years ago this week. I’ve spent the last four years reminiscing about my experiences there. Auburn was the nest in which adult Drew hatched. I made decisions there about who I would be for … Continue reading →

Kit and I took a vacation—as if we needed one living where we do—in Alaska. I had already caught a nice salmon in the Kenai River when we hiked into U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s new Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area.  … Continue reading →

Kit has written an article published by Cru’s Global Staff Women all over the world. The following link to her ideas remains on our More Than Ordinary Lives website. Catching Creative Compassion

The hallway in my engineering school had a TV set continually playing a loop of a falling bridge. In 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge failed due to dynamic instability in a relatively mild forty mile-an-hour wind. I watched the tape … Continue reading →

Pictured are wild foxgloves growing in our yard. The tallest is over seven feet and growing. We have hundreds ringing our house all natural. Before moving to Washington, we had bought foxgloves from nurseries and struggled to keep them alive. … Continue reading →