by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 20, 2010 | Friendship, happy endings
We got a Christmas letter this week that started out, “We’re still here, living in the same house, doing pretty much the same thing.” I think my friend was making a disclaimer right up front that this wouldn’t be one of those end-of-the-year...
by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 3, 2010 | happy endings
My husband and I are celebrating this month in a big way. We are out of debt for the first time in our 36-year marriage. Out, baby. All the way. We don’t owe a cent on our cars, our kids, our credit cards or anything else. It isn’t because we are smart and...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 21, 2010 | happy endings, mercy
If I live to be 110, I am officially half-way there. And, so far, it has been a fantastic trip. Long sections of my road have meandered through green valleys of good stuff. Other parts have involved hairpin curves and steep inclines where I had to shift into low gear,...
by Kathy Nickerson | Oct 30, 2010 | family, happy endings, mercy
In 2005, 800 people in the United States were diagnosed with Synovial Cell Sarcoma, a rare and aggresive cancer. 799 of them were not my daughter. So begins the story I wrote for this latest book in the Guideposts Extraordinary Answers to Prayer series. I am honored...
by Kathy Nickerson | Oct 15, 2010 | happy endings, work
Do you think the Proverbs 31 lady ever found herself in the plumbing aisle of Wal Mart at 9:00 on a Friday night and suddenly remembered she was wearing no make-up and had a ketchup blob on her shirt from eating supper in the car? I didn’t mind looking like a...
by Kathy Nickerson | Oct 3, 2010 | happy endings, writing
In our family, if we don’t hear from one another often enough, we send out an email asking, “are you trapped under something heavy?” I have been. I was trapped under 75,680 words of a novel I’d love to find sitting on all your bedside tables...