This week, random.org handed me Mama Kat prompt number three: A favorite Thanksgiving memory. Every Thanksgiving, thousands of my fellow Tallahasseeans (along with visiting friends/family) and I gather to run 5, 10, or 15 kilometers (or the 1 mile “gobbler”) to kick off the day. I had no illusions of running a “fast” (for me) Turkey Trot […]
Wordless Wednesday (Within the Lines Edition)
This is Week Seven of the Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge. This week’s color is white. As a “Dance Mom,” I do a whole lot of waiting. In the car. Between white lines on the pavement. These white lines: Life lived “between the lines” doesn’t have to be dull; we just have to look a little harder […]
My World on 11-11-11
On November 11, 2011, I participated in the 11Eleven Project. The 11Eleven project is an effort to capture (then immortalize) images of the world through the day on 11/11/11. The result of the contributions will include several things, including a world music collection, a photo book, and a two-hour documentary. The organization coordinating the project […]
Oh, Parenting (A Mama Kat Writing Prompt)
This week, random.org handed me Mama Kat prompt number two: Your biggest parenting challenge and/or joy. I have two children, Tenley (15) and Wayne (12). There was never any question that being a mom was a goal for me. I have never been disappointed that I chose to have children, and despite all of the poop, human […]
Wordless Wednesday (Brown Understudy Edition)
This is Week Six of the Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge. This week’s color is brown. We have a tree in our front yard that is (on first glance) pretty nondescript. I have hung the occasional bird feeder in it; I have driven past it thousands of times as I pulled into and out of our […]
Be That Adult
This has been a week in which it was impossible to escape the topic of child sexual abuse. Jerry Sandusky’s history of abusing boys and young men in Pennsylvania became public, and with it questions proliferated about who knew what, when it had happened, and what had (or had not) been done in response. As the […]