by Kathy on April 20, 2012 · 7 comments
in Abby, Bereavement, Blessed, Bob, Coping, Decisions, Exhale Magazine, Expectations, Faith, Family, Friends, Gatekeeping, Gratitude, Grief, Loss, Love, Milestones, Molly, Planning, Relationships, Sadness, Sean, Suicide Prevention
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the fourth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. I have been in a funk for much of this week and realized today that rather than trying to continue […]
by Kathy on February 22, 2012 · 8 comments
in Bereavement, Blessed, Bob, Change, Coping, Decisions, Family, Friends, Infertility, Inspiration, Journey, Loss, Love, Milestones, Molly, Our Home, Peace, The Future, Transitions, Uncategorized, Writing
Earlier this month I ordered this picture (framed and matted) for the office in our new home, which Bob recently repainted a very nice color that found out about here. I took the photo in August 2008 when Bob and I were in Lake Tahoe for the marriage of two of our friends, one of […]
by Kathy on January 30, 2012 · 17 comments
in Abby, Background, Bob, Decisions, Family, Happiness, Infertility, Life, Loss, Molly, Sean, The Future
I wrote this post a few months ago, but wasn’t ready to share it until now. I think this partly because when I wrote it I believed what I was saying whole-heartedly. And then a little while later I didn’t. Re-reading this periodically became a gage for me to see where I stood on the […]
I’ll admit it, the main reason I signed up to read and review Why Women Need Fat by Dr. William D. Lassek and Dr. Steven J.C. Gaulin, my fifth BlogHer Book Club selection, was because of a line in a summary about it which said something about “why those last five pounds seem impossible to […]
Happy New Year! Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the thirteenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up […]
by Kathy on December 6, 2011 · 5 comments
in Blog Hops, Coping, Decisions, Family, Fear, Infertility, Loss, NaBloPoMo, Time Warp Tuesdays, Writing
Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the tenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! As you may know, if you read my post last Tuesday, usually I like to kick off Time Warp just after midnight on Tuesday mornings, but last week I somehow managed […]