by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 30, 2015 | family, writing
I cried several times over the weekend. Mostly happy-cry. But sometimes it was that cry where everything gets jumbled up together, and you aren’t sure which emotion is actually pouring down your face and making your nose turn red. It started with,...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 25, 2015 | family, happy endings, The Bible
People sometimes ask me how I came up with a character like Elmer Grigsby in my novel Thirty Days to Glory. In my obviously perfect, Hallmark-movie life, how did I dream up a WWII vet who survives on cheap booze and canned meat? Whose only companion is his cat. Who...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 23, 2015 | mercy
I’ve eaten my words more often than I’d like. They are never tasty. So, when Facebook offered to let me see the words I’d used most often in 2015, I didn’t immediately jump at the offer. What if the words I use most often are grumpy?...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Decades are such a nice, neat measurement. I remember learning to count by tens. I can still see the worksheet with bundles of sticks tied neatly with cords. Math was such a mystery to me. I loved the sensible, clear, obvious steps of ten....
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 13, 2015 | mercy
Welcome to stop #10 on the CrossRiver Author Hunt today. This is a Cyber Scavenger Hunt, in case you didn’t know. It’s just like knocking on your neighbor’s door and asking for a paper clip or a clothes pin before dashing across the street to ask for...
