by Kathy Nickerson | Oct 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
– Buying new towels. Seriously, after a few years of marital sharing, treat yourself to some towels. No one is giving you a mid-life bridal shower. (Ditto on new pans for the kitchen, new sheets for the bed, and new unmentionables for the lingerie drawer.)...
by Kathy Nickerson | Oct 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
Both Felicity and Serenity have been talking about this subject, so it is on my mind. And, I wonder if our perspective on it changes with the decades. I’m not sure the thought weighs on me very much anymore, but maybe it should. Don’t get me wrong. I still...
by Kathy Nickerson | Oct 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
Not the Bucket List. The List of Stupid-Things-I’ve-Done-In-My-Life-Because-I-Was-Too-Proud-to-Ask-for-Help. I bought a new bed last week. It was on sale. A great deal and super-comfy. But I paid for it before I said, “You do deliver to our neighborhood,...
by Kathy Nickerson | Oct 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
So, I have two chapters left on the final revision of my current novel, Thirty Days to Glory. Well, really only a chapter and a half. And, I have an actual deadline. It needs to be polished and ready before a writer’s conference in November where I plan to visit...
by Kathy Nickerson | Oct 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
This is a picture of Nola Serenity. She is perched on a stool her great-great Aunt Lynie once purchased right out from under the small African man who had carved it from a log. I married into the family when Aunt Lynie had already been in Africa nearly three decades....