Brooke Lorren's Lenses

I am a homeschool mom with two kids. I think that it's important to be involved in your kids' lives in order to help them become the best people that they can be. I spend most of my day teaching, and taking my kids to activities.

But it turns out that right now, teaching is not enough. My husband started going back to school a few years ago, when he realized that it was going to be difficult to ever make a decent living without getting a college degree. So he started out at community college, and now he is in his last few semesters at Arizona State University.

In order to get a degree from Arizona State University, there are some classes that he has to take that are only offered during the day. He had to quit his day job (so to speak) in order to get a job that could give him the flexibility to go to school. So he took a job as a writer. His major is in the writing field, and he would love to write screenplays some day. He already has one novel published.

Unfortunately, his job as a writer doesn't pay that much. In fact, we make about $10k below the poverty level. While listening to Dave Ramsey one day (I'm a big fan of him and his principals), he talked about how if you want to be rich, you have to do what rich people do. I asked what Dave Ramsey would say about our situation. He would tell us that we're not making enough. So I tried to think of something that I could do to make a little more money for our family.

My husband can't take another job. He's already a full-time student, and he has a regular job on top of that. About a year ago, he got an opportunity to start a new business with his old boss. It takes a while to start a business, and although he's working hard at that as well, he's still not getting paid.

So I started writing. I have been writing for Epinions since 2000, so I know that there is money to be made in writing for the web. I found Associated Content after that, and then I found Squidoo. So now I'm writing for a few different places. I'm hoping to increase my earnings, and would like to earn enough to take my kids on vacation this summer. Although writing, like any business, starts off fairly slowly, I hope to build something with it.

Hank the Cowdog has been around for more than 20 years, but I had only heard of it recently, when I was asked to review the book for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. My daughter really enjoyed it, and I created a lens about it.

The lens includes a book review, a review of the Hank "Tornado" game, and information about the characters in the world of Hank the Cowdog.

The founding fathers, and many other patriots throughout the history of the United States, have had a lot to say about this country. I've compiled some of my favorite quotes from the Patriots and Founding Fathers.

Our country is in a time of great difficulty, and it's more important than ever to know what this country stands for. Like many of my lenses, this is a work in progress, and I plan on adding more patriotic quotes as I have time (and find more gems).

Belfair, Washington has a lot of things to do, if you like the out-of-doors. It is also not very well known. Take a dip in the Hood Canal, have a barbecue at Twanoh State Park, or visit the wetlands at the Theler Center.

This lens has information on visiting, or moving to, Belfair. I have included information on schools, parks, real estate, and eating.

Photo by Mart1n at sxc.hu.

I like Toys For Toddler Boys, although it's not doing very well in lensrank at this point. I'm still trying to figure out what works well around here. My little boy is a toddler, and I've included some toys that he likes and is interested in. I also designed this shirt:


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Photo by Hardeep Singh at Wikimedia Commons.

I say that Walking With Angels is a fairly unique lens because it's about a book that my husband wrote. He currently is working as a writer, and is also working on getting a degree in writing from Arizona State University. This was his first paper-published book. He published an electronic book a couple of years before this.