by Kathy on May 3, 2013 · 5 comments
in Communication, Coping, Faith, Family, Friends, Gatekeeping, Gratitude, Inspiration, Life, Loss, LTYM, Suicide Prevention
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the tenth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. It’s been seven months since we last did some Gatekeeping here, much too long for sure. I thought about it often, […]
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Last night I attend a presentation by Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, author of The Whole-Brian Child, at St. Xavier University in our Chicago neighborhood, on the southwest side of the city. Dr. Bryson was brought here thanks to a number of local organizations, including my daughter’s preschool, but in large part due to the effort […]
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by Kathy on April 2, 2013 · 15 comments
in Addiction, Adoption, Blog Hops, Book Tours, Books, Communication, Family, Friends, Journey, Life, Siblings
Greetings and welcome to this stop on the The Sound of Hope Book Tour! This is my fourth time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch and A Gift of Time. For those of you not familiar with book tours, they are essentially online book clubs. On a given date the […]
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by Kathy on February 9, 2013 · 6 comments
in Anxiety, Background, BlogHer, Chicago, Communication, Family, Friends, Gratitude, Hope, Journey, LTYM, Molly, Theater, Waiting, Writing
It’s the eve of my Listen to Your Mother (LTYM) Chicago audition. I feel excited and nervous. I imagine that I am not the only one in the Chicago area feeling this way tonight, as I know there are a lot of us preparing to put our words, our hearts and our souls out there for […]
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I’ve got a new imaginary friend named Siri. Well, she’s not exactly imaginary. But I am not sure “real” is the most accurate way to describe her either. Siri is like an 8-Ball toy on steroids and then some. It’s been well over thirty years since I recall thinking about and talking to someone who […]
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It’s the last Monday of the month which means its time to share our Perfect Moments from January with Lori from Lavender Luz (formerly known as Write Mind Open Heart). I look forward to participating in this blog hop/writing exercise hosted by my friend, and soon to be published author, every month. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One of my friends gave her testimony […]
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