by Richard Wharton | Aug 25, 2022
It is not surprising when you ask people how their life is and they would say, “It’s quite difficult, actually, but we have to keep going.” There is sometimes the “air of surrender” in that response. There is also the “voice of courage” in there for a lot of people. ...
by Richard Wharton | Aug 16, 2022
Fear is almost a knee-jerk reaction that could happen (and usually happens) to anyone at any time. It is almost human nature to feel defensive if they think any threat of harm would come to them. But before the thought of defending self comes the feeling of fear...
by Richard Wharton | Aug 11, 2022
Author weaves a children’s story to help kids face their fear of the dark What will the little boy do when Something Unfamiliar and too difficult to make out comes into view in the middle of the night? Children will find out as they follow him in the pages of this...
by Richard Wharton | May 27, 2022
Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Wherever you are in the world today, happy day to you. In todays blog, I’m writing about the concept design of the first Robot. Which, actually took me a while. Well, truthfully, all the robot designs took me a while....
by Richard Wharton | May 17, 2022
“It starts out a bit differently than most children’s stories; it begins like a nightmare” I loved this line. I thought it was a clever way to grab the readers attention. As a father, when I pick up a children’s story to read to my boys,...
by Richard Wharton | May 11, 2022
So, something that took a while to really set in for me, was receiving the Plume Award for Literacy Excellence. When I set out to write Something Unfamiliar, it was because I had an idea for a story, but I wasn’t really sure what I would do with it when and if I...
