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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you’ll put your feet up and stay for awhile. This is, after all, a place for friends to gather.
Ever since I can remember holding a pen, I remember writing. Words are my constant companion, my solace, my connection to humanity. I write because I must, but I also write to share a common experience. If one of my sentences makes you feel like you are not alone in this wide world, then I have done my job. We have so much to share as human beings, don’t we? Thank you for letting me share my words.
Now pour a glass of Cabernet and enjoy!
For those of you who are new, please let me introduce myself. I have been married to the love of my life for 17 years, by his side for 23. Chris and I are the parents of four very fun, unique, and vibrant kids we like to call Sam, Gus, Mary Claire, and George. Add our canine companions, Maggie and Lucy, to the mix, and life around here pretty much resembles a three-ring circus. We have a wide and beloved circle of friends and family and believe very strongly in unconditional love, abiding trust, heartfelt conversation, unfettered laughter, abundant social drinking, dancing with reckless abandon, and spicing things up with a bit of profanity as necessary.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. - William Wordsworth
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. -Anaïs Nin
A family is a unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash
Professional Head Shots by Christie Turnbull Photography
Katrina,
You make me laugh in the best way. Your writing is amazing.
Kathy Vahle (Greenfield)
Thank you, Kathy!
your words paint a great picture
Thank you!
I LOVE the Ogden Nash quote – LOL! And I look forward to reading your posts as time allows (The Powers That Be frown on that sort of thing at work but I try to sneak it in here and there
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It’s a good one, isn’t it? Thank you!
You sound like a kindred spirit! I’m new to the blog experience, and I’m enjoying peeking in on yours!
Thank you! I love kindred spirits.
I’ve been browsing through your posts and invite you to write for the second volume of a Alabaster Jars, a compilation or readings and stories. There are several in your blog that we could use or you can write us a fresh one.
The proceeds of the book sales go towards women’s literacy projects in developing countries. The guidelines are on the website, http://www.alabasterjars.org and the fist volume of the book is on sale at amazon.com (http://amzn.to/alabasterjars)
Here’s my email: ffkline@gmail.com
Just fabulous.
Thanks, Dawn.
You are such a beautiful writer. Most of your posts make me cry for one reason or another, but I love to read them anyway. I am new to this site and I am really enjoying it so far. Thanks for your funny and poignant insights. ☺
Thank you so much… and welcome!
Katrina, I am thrilled to have come upon your blog and I love it so much I am nominating you for the Versatile blogger award, http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/about/. I’m sure you hear it all the time on how great your writing is, however, I don’t think you could ever hear it enough and I look forward to following your success! Blessings!
Thank you so much!! I’ve been offline for awhile — lost my hard drive
— and just found this today. So appreciate your kind words!
bummer! Dealt with the same issue a few months ago. Keep up the great work! At home AND away!
just wanted to say I like your blog and you have a wonderful looking family
Thank you! I think they’re pretty cute, too.
Well, you’ve done your job. Just reading the For those of you who are new… section of your blog hit home: …We have a wide and beloved circle of friends and family and believe very strongly in unconditional love, abiding trust, heartfelt conversation, unfettered laughter, abundant social drinking, dancing with reckless abandon, and spicing things up with a bit of profanity as necessary…–I LOVE IT. I will definitely pass your site along. Thanks for the pick-me-up of a common experience, expressed so uncommonly well.
Thank you so much for your oh-so-kind words.
Happy to have found your site. My husband is a die hard MS State fan (and I am by association). Hurray for the 3-0 start to the season for the Bulldogs!
Welcome, MSU fans!
Don’t know how I missed this but glad you will be here!
Hi Katrina
I found you over on KOM. You have a lovely home here, I love the picture of your family and look forward to reading more.
Best regards,
Angela
Hi, Angela! Welcome! Thanks for your kind words.
Glad to have you here!
Absolutely your new reader from this day on!! 100% identify with all the words up on your banner, only I am not a writer but consider myself a photographer and lover of all arts there for, I actually do love to write, even crazy totally wrong grammatically speaking but i do try
In any case, thank you, I will be reading your posts from now on!
Dear Katrina,
What an inspiration you are, i’ve just read your posts and they make me smile you have put into words what i’ve been trying to do, your letter to your son sums up what I’ve been trying to tell mine for years. and you do have a lovely family who all look so happy, Many Thanks and keep up the good work! Best wishes
Jan
I’ve stumbled upon your blog quite by chance and am so glad I did! Just read your letter to your 16 year old son post… wonderful, so much of what I’d like to say to my own sons of 17 and 15. I am very much looking forward to reading more!
I just got so lost in reading your posts… I was LOL!!! really I was.. I will return and read more. promise.