by Kathy on October 3, 2012 · 4 comments
in Abby, Bereavement, Birthdays, Blessed, Bob, Coping, Decisions, Frustration, Gatekeeping, Gratitude, Healing, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Molly, MOPS, Our Home, Peace, Pregnancy Loss, Quotes, Running, Suicide Prevention
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the ninth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. September was a whirlwind for me and my family — from the Chicago Teachers Union Strike to planning and pulling […]
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It’s Friday the 13th and though I am not very superstitious, it is on my radar. Since this past week has brought a slew of random and unexpected unlucky events to our family, I am hoping that today will be relatively uneventful in comparison. They say bad things happen in threes and there were at […]
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by Kathy on July 12, 2012 · 2 comments
in Abby, Bob, Exercise, Family, Frustration, Inspiration, Life, NaBloPoMo, Our Home, Reality, Sean, The Today Voice
Thank you for your support of and enthusiasm for my fellow writers and me at The Today Voice since we launched our new writing project last week. I especially appreciate those of you who took the time to comment on my first post over there and share your thoughts on the prompt for week one here and/or there. […]
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Our latest home improvement project is finally complete and we couldn’t be happier with how it turned out! I intended to share more “in progress” photos here, but never got around to uploading the pictures I took. Here are some before and after photos of the newly painted exterior of our house and garage to show the […]
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by Kathy on May 21, 2012 · 4 comments
in Abby, Blessed, Bob, Exercise, Expectations, Family, Food, Friends, Gatekeeping, Happiness, Life, Loss, Love, Our Home, Running, Sean, Suicide Prevention
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the fifth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Last week I received an email from a reader letting me know how much my Gatekeepers post has meant to […]
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by Kathy on April 23, 2012 · 9 comments
in Abby, Birthdays, Bob, Coping, Faith, Family, Happiness, Healing, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Molly, Our Home, Perfect Moments, Sean, Signs
It’s the fourth Monday of the month which means its time to share our Perfect Moments from April with Lori from Write Mind Open Heart. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Last week was the fourth anniversary of our daughter Molly’s birth and death. We celebrated with our family on Saturday, April 14th by going to the cemetery where she is buried to […]
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