I’ve been rather quiet on here lately, mainly due to the abundance of stuff on my plate. As some of you know, Dave is out of a job – but he hasn’t been sitting around idle! Oh no! He’s quite the task master. Over the past couple years, I’ve been creating Teaching Supplements with which to teach our son, Ian. My Davie has recently taken my crude, hand cut versions and formatted them in Illustrator and also created a real web site (not just my blog site) with a store and all!
I don’t know if any of you remember Dr J Vernon Magee or his radio announcer, Bob Smith. It was 15 years ago this month that my dear daddy, Bob Smith lost his battle with cancer and joined our Lord and Savior. I remember going to the studio with daddy and watching him making take after take, getting it all just right! Daddy made it look real easy. I’m here to tell you that it is NOT easy! For a 43 min story, I recorded over 2 hours of different takes!!! Ah, but I’m getting ahead of myself!
While I learned a lot from listening and watching my daddy through his radio announcing and film making (he worked during the week for Moody Institute of Science filming such greats as ‘City of the Bees’ and all the other greats that still stand in the test of time). I also remember sitting in my mom’s office, listening over and over to these little cassette tapes – each one a different accent. My mom was the Drama Director (and Bible and Biology teacher) for Whittier Christian High School for almost 25 years. She moved on to Maranatha High School where she continued Directing Drama (and teaching Biology) and influencing many, many students for our Lord.
Early February, my mom came down with Bacterial Meningitis and since has been battling for her life (down here on earth). When someone you love is knocking on death’s door, you often question things that you should have done, but just never got around to doing. My mom has always wanted me to record for her. That was the one thing that kept haunting me. At the same time, Dave started bugging me about recording some of these stories that I was telling the kids for our Lit time for school. I know my mom wants to hear my singing voice, and I’ll do that as it presents itself. Music has always and will always be my first love, but for now, stories are what we are able to record right now.
So, without further ado, McCormick Family Ministries presents Audio E-Books as well as E-Teaching Fans and E-Word Wheels. (first published 03-08)