Gratitude

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 […]

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This is my third and final post about Titanic this week. Here are links to my previous two posts: Titanic – Part I: It Was Sad When the Great Ship Went Down Titanic – Part II: Haven Exploration Originally I envisioned this last post being about some of my other connections and experiences related to […]

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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the eighteenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to […]

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The Beverly Review

by Kathy on April 9, 2012 · 5 comments

in Awards, Chicago, Gratitude, Writing

Last week my friend Marianne from We Band of Mothers and I were featured in our neighborhood’s weekly newspaper. The piece highlighted that we both placed in Circle of Moms 2012 Top 25 Blog Lists. Marianne’s blog was honored in the “Funny Moms” category and mine made the “Moms with Inspiring Families” list. Many thanks to The […]

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Last week I didn’t know what that meant. Today I do, along with many others in our Beverly neighborhood who are honoring the life and memory of Marine Corporal Conner Lowry. Semper Fi, short for Semper Fidelis, is latin for Always Faithful. The Marine Corps uses it as their motto and their inspiration as they serve and […]

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Yes We Did!!!

by Kathy on March 7, 2012 · 6 comments

in Awards, Family, Friends, Gratitude, Inspiration

Voting has ended and look who/what ended up at #22!!! You can click on the Circle of Moms logo to the right to see the entire list. Thank you sooooooo much to everyone who voted and supported me and my blog over the past few days!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ Your kind words, encouragement and “thumbs […]

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