by Kathy on February 16, 2012 · 5 comments
in Books, Change, Family, Friends, Infertility, Inspiration, Limericks, Loss, Poetry, Writing
Top of the mornin’ to ya! It’s that time of year when we drink Shamrock Shakes, eat Irish Soda Bread and write rhymes for Lori’s Limerick Chick Contest! I was honored to be the 2011 LimChick Winner last year with my entry about our Stirrup Queen Mel’s book Life from Scratch. Many thanks to all who voted for […]
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by Kathy on November 9, 2011 · 6 comments
in Bereavement, Bob, Change, Family, Fear, Grief, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, NaBloPoMo, Pain, Quotes, Steppenwolf, Suicide Prevention, The Future, Theater, Writing
Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow Last week Bob and I got to see another wonderful play at the Steppenwolf Theater here in Chicago. Our last visit there was to see a memorable piece called Sex with Strangers which I wrote about here. That play dealt with the power of words (both in print and on the Internet), as well as […]
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by Kathy on November 6, 2011 · 4 comments
in Background, Change, CRHP, Faith, Inspiration, Love, NaBloPoMo, Quotes, Song Lyrics, Time
I scheduled this blog entry to post today around the time that I will give my witness on the women’s retreat (see my post from yesterday) that I am helping to facilitate at our church this weekend. My witness is about “Discipleship,” what it means to me and my faith journey. I ask that if you read […]
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by Kathy on October 20, 2011 · 9 comments
in Abby, Bereavement, Change, Decisions, Family, Healing, Hope, Infertility, Life, Loss, Memories, Milestones, The Future, Transitions
I’ve been taking you for over nine years now. You have been hope in a bottle for me. Every time I would swallow one I would imagine that those extra nutrients were helping to make my body more ready and able to conceive and sustain a pregnancy. During my pregnancies and the times I was […]
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by Kathy on September 27, 2011 · 15 comments
in Abby, Background, Change, Decisions, Faith, Family, Fear, Loss, Memories, Molly, Pain, Sean, Time, Time Warp Tuesdays, Waiting
Let’s do the Time Warp! Welcome to the first installment of my new blog hop called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! In case you missed my post about this last week, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to participate and link up […]
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Slow Love by Dominique Browning is my third BlogHer Book Club read and my least favorite so far. It is the first book club selection that I chose to read that I thought was just okay. There were some good insights and tidbits to chew on, but as another reviewer @yesnofilms commented on Twitter and I […]
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