Kate Wicker

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We Interrupt this Blog for Some Summer Livin’

I’m taking a blogging break for the next week or so.

This has been the quickest summer of my life – just one big blur, really. So I’m turning off the computer for awhile, so I can savor the sunshine, the silliness, and the season of leisure. I want to really remember my baby’s beginning clumsy steps toward me. I want to join my intrepid bug catcher on a few more hunts in the soft summer dusk. I want to eat more watermelon and blueberries. I want to hear the sounds of my preschooler shrieking and baby squealing as we splash in the lake together. I want to run barefoot in the grass along with my daughter and when she says, “Mommy, this is the best day ever,” I want that memory to be our own and something that’s forever etched in mind even if I never get a chance to write about it.

Of course, even without the computer I’ll still be writing – just the old-fashioned way armed with a pen and journal.

And I’ll be back blogging in no time. But in the meantime, why not soak up some summertime memories of your own?

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· August 17, 2008 · · Filed Under: Kate's Blog, Summer

Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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