A Word from the Wiggers!

We started home schooling our children in 1989. That same year we experimented with buying and selling geography materials in order to earn curriculum money. Josh loved selling in our booth and meeting new people so much that we eventually developed Geography Matters® into a full-time business.

We have come a long way since then: developing and distributing our own outline products, publishing timeline materials in both print and eBook, writing and publishing a number of geography books, constructing a separate building on our lot to accommodate a growing business. We have enjoyed attending home school conferences, teaching workshops all over the country, writing magazine articles, and learning again right along with our children.

Our children (Libby, Hannah and Alex) grew up helping in the business by working in the office, packaging materials, laminating, preparing outline map packages and lending a hand at the conferences. Working at conventions provided wonderful experiences for them and was a tremendous value to the company. Libby has published her own book of timeline figures, aptly named, Historical Timeline Figures; Hannah helped Dad design maps in Uncle Josh's Outline Map Book; and Alex has created his own set of Bible Timeline Figures available on CD-ROM. Both girls have graduated from with honors as a Scientist and Interior; and Alex is now attending college and working in our office where he pushes us toward the cutting edge of technology.

Operating a business from our home is certainly challenging, but we wouldn't want to have it any other way. We have especially learned in the last seventeen+ years that anything of real value and excellence takes lots of energy, time, and faith in God. May He bless our endeavors as we attempt to serve Him in our everyday lives.