by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 25, 2014 | mercy
In my day job, I spend a lot of time chasing claims insurance companies don’t want to pay. Or soothing patients who think we’ve charged too much for our services. Or reminding people that they promised to drop off their copay after work — three weeks...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 21, 2014 | mercy
All the best stories are about friends. Have you noticed that? Harry Potter made readers out of about a zillion kids who claimed to hate books. We can argue about great writing. (Her adult book didn’t do so well.) Or about the bewitchery of evil forces....
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 16, 2014 | mercy
My children will never remember me for my culinary skills. I can cook. I kept the seven of us alive even through the starving teenage years. Thank you, microwave popcorn, for calming the hungry beast of growing boys between meals. But, I don’t do it as an art...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 11, 2014 | mercy
When I wrote Thirty Days to Glory, I started thinking about the transitions ahead in my own life. And about the down-sizing that might eventually be required. I certainly hope to remain a feisty old lady living with no one except my still-handsome husband until we are...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 7, 2014 | mercy
Decades ago, my husband, Wendell, and I helped start a church in our college town. We were still caught up in the anti-establishment movement of the sixties, so we frowned upon things like stained glass and tall steeples. We wanted something new, something...
