I've always felt like there were two conflicting sides to me. The practical girl and the dreamer. The go-getter and the nap-lover. The health food junky and the chocolate obsessed. On any given day, I hear myself saying, "I feel both this AND that" or...
I am enough. Even if the people I love are not always happy. Even if I still don’t know how to balance a checkbook or save money or pay my bills on time. Even if I never lose this last twenty pounds. Even if I don’t know what to...
Do you ever notice that the shadows you thought you left behind creep back up on you, into you, weave into your muscles and synapses, camp out for the night beneath your shoulder blade or in the hollow of your hope, darkening the space between...
I was tossing and turning, unhappy and physically uncomfortable in my "current situation". I asked for this, yet it burdened me. What does this mean? Lacking the precious routine that once ruled my life (and had me in a better place), losing sight of what...
On my body are these words written by Jen Lee "I see you just as you are and just as you are not and I have nothing but love for you." Image courtesy of Katherine CenterI've come to realize that my entire life has been a journey in...
My mother was one of eight. I am one of six. I thought I would surely be the mother of four or five. I always gravitated toward babies. Every family occasion would find me with whoever had the youngest child. I looked forward to pregnancy, and...
It’s hard to know where to begin. I’ve been writing this in my head for weeks and still I don’t know how to give you the background to understand the importance of eight words I heard ten years ago. I was given up for adoption at birth...
Image of Jenny being painted by Katherine courtesy of Karen Walrond I’m not exactly sure exactly how I got the idea to paint words on people. It just kind of came to me—in that mysterious way that ideas do. What I am sure of is: There are...