Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

What I’m Pondering Right Now

As I drove to the hospital this past Tuesday to go visit my mom, my stomach was one big, twisted knot. My younger brother saw our mom the day before and said it was weird seeing her like that. That being vulnerable. We’re big kids now, but I guess we still kind of think ofRead the whole post >>

Gaba Update

Thanks to everyone for your comments, emails, prayers, etc. for my dear mom. The surgery went well and she should be back home in two to three days. Now we just have to hope it will be effective in relieving at least some of her pain. I’m on my way to see her at theRead the whole post >>

Saint Gaba

Madeline eyes the silver watch in my mom’s hands. “Can I wear it?” she asks. Gaba slips the thin band onto Madeline’s tiny wrist. It’s not a watch my mom wears. It has an outdated style and its gears have stopped, and it no longer tells the time. But what it lacks in function andRead the whole post >>

7 Quick Takes (I have no idea what volume I’m on)

I’ve been playing hooky on 7 Quick Takes Fridays, mainly because extracting seven semi-witty things from my gray-sludge-of-a-brain since giving birth to my third child has become next to impossible. But here I am again. Not because I’m feeling particularly witty, so go ahead and lower your expectations right now. It’s just that Jen’s gotRead the whole post >>

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

―Flannery O'Connor