Spent three hours making sure the bibliography for Quartz in Their Veins is in order. Not fun but done.

29 years today. Here's to the next 29!

A first draft of Quartz in Their Veins: Crystals in Arkansas' Ouachita Mountains and the Coleman Family's Legacy is currently being bound to gift my dad for Christmas. It represents 1.5 years of my life and encompasses all of his. I hope he likes it.

#booksky

Compiled the Scrivener files today so I can print a first copy of Quartz in Their Veins Crystals in Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains and the Coleman Family’s Legacy for my dad this Christmas!!

I'm amazing. My family is amazing. Quartz in Their Veins: Crystals in Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains & the Coleman Family’s Legacy is a must read (at least according to me).

Photo of Josh Coleman's daughter Kynlee for attention & because she's cheering on her amazing family & their amazing crystals.

Is it wrong that I am fascinated with Quartz in Their Veins: Crystals in Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains and the Coleman Family’s Legacy?! The whole family comes to life, & I literally experience the highs & lows with them during the read-through. Just completed the 1987 pocket of the McEarl crystals.

Prohibition and Charley Coleman clashed during the earliest days of quartz mining in Arkansas. Learn what happened in Quartz in Their Veins: Crystals in Arkansas' Ouachita Mountains and the Coleman Family Legacy.

I'm biased, it's true. But this book is GOOD. Quartz in Their Veins is chock full of scientific and historical information, in addition to the Coleman legacy. You don't want to miss it.

Picture of Quartz Clovis arrowhead found in Arkansas' Ouachita Mountains and dating back more than 10,000 years.

First draft of Quartz in Their Veins: Crystals in Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains and the Coleman Family’s Legacy is complete! Research, interviews, and writing has taken more than 1.5 years, and I am so excited! Now to secure agent and publisher and start editing.

Screenshot from the time Machine Gun Kelly gave an Insta shoutout to the Berns Quartz at the Constitution entrance to Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Writing about this piece from the Old Coleman Mine for the chapter on notable specimens in the upcoming book Quartz in Their Veins.

Ran the Huff Puff and Stuff 5k and now I am stuffed. Happy Thanksgiving

These are a few of my favorite things: my husband and his reverence for God, my son Chase and his engineering mind, my son Ben and his musicality, running, writing, seeing God in the things around me, successfully running two businesses, Hot Springs National Park, and Coleman quartz crystals.

Crystal Cave, the well known building along Whittington Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas, was originally built and run by J.A. Bauer, who also owned Miller Mountain Mine in Jessieville. Jimmy Coleman bought Miller Mountain Mine from the Bauer family in 1978.

One of Ron Coleman's favorite Arkansas quartz crystal points. The book I'm writing, Quartz in Their Veins, will tell you why crystals from the Old Coleman Mine set the standard for quartz.

Julien says I have more important things to do

Jimmy Coleman's photograph is displayed behind a quartz cluster at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Learn more in the upcoming book Quartz in Their Veins: Crystals in Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains and the Coleman Family’s Legacy. #nonfiction #writing #quartzcrystals

The first pieces of Arkansas quartz crystal at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The larger piece was acquired from the Garfield Claim in Mount Ida. The smaller cluster was purchased from my great grandfather Charley Coleman in 1952.