by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 29, 2013 | mercy
Today’s flash of brilliance is not my own. It comes from my wise, master-teacher sister. I think she talked about it at church months ago, but it came back to me this morning. For some reason, I was thinking about failure and how we let it define us. Peter, for...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 26, 2013 | mercy
I got a little stressed last week. It must have surfaced to the rest of the world during a meeting with some folks about the release of my upcoming novel. I’m not sure what I said, but suddenly, the restaurateur who is hosting my book launch bash spoke up. He...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 22, 2013 | mercy
It’s that time of year again. Facebook is filled with pictures of smiling children in stiff new clothes, strapped to bulky backpacks, waiting for rumbling buses. Nothing says Changing Seasons like the start of a new school year. Even those of us who...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 17, 2013 | mercy
This weekend our second daughter, Serenity, is celebrating sixteen years of marital bliss with her childhood sweetheart. Their wedding really was something of a fairytale, complete with flower petals falling from the sky when they turned to greet the crowd as man and...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 10, 2013 | mercy
This is David posing with my daughters. He is a man-of-God and a son-of-my-heart. On a recent trip to Omaha, he brought along a couple of honorary nephews from his church. He took them for supper at Fuddrucker’s and said to the girl behind the counter,...