In a few weeks I will be starting my 51st year on this planet. There are times when this fact amazes me, such as the other night when I went to my oldest son’s back-to-school night at the same high school I attended. As I walked the pale yellow brick hallways searching for his history class, I would have sworn that I was the student in her senior year rushing to her 8th … [Read more...]
A Mom and Her Music (Or What Happens When Your Kids Find Out You’re Not Cool)
A few days ago I was watching a documentary on the 1970’s vocal group, The Carpenters. (It is at this point that I feel compelled to tell you that if after reading this statement you feel the need to quickly get off my page and forget you ever knew me or my possessed dishwasher, I totally understand.) As I was thoroughly enjoying my show my 11-year-old came into my room, … [Read more...]
For the Love of Fran
I wrote this piece a few weeks before my dear aunt Fran lost her battle with cancer more than two years ago. Even after all this time, I find myself stopping to call her whenever my mother is driving me a bit crazy, or my kids are doing something I know she would love. This week would have been her 76th birthday. Though my mother named me Katherine, she has always had … [Read more...]
An Unplanned Change of Direction
Some events occur and we know instantly our lives have been changed forever. Other times something will happen, and we don’t recognize until weeks or months later that the course of our lives has been completely altered. I would put the days I found out I was pregnant with each of our three children in the first category. There was also the Valentine’s Day almost 24 years ago … [Read more...]
A Gift to Myself
Five years ago I sat down at my kids’ computer and started to connect with the online world. I found a Family Circle website and replied to a few posts. Each time a comment of mine got a like, I experienced a high I’d never known before. It didn’t take long before I started my own blog on one of the site’s platforms. When the very first piece I did, on the recent loss of … [Read more...]
