Kate’s Blog – Page 4

How dieting is like foot binding

January is a popular time for women of all shapes and sizes to make goals and devote every waking hour as well as their finite and precious energy into forming – or sometimes just thinking about – habits with the sole purpose of shrinking their bodies. But these efforts – even if we’ve convinced ourselvesRead the whole post >>

Advent & Christmas Books

Recently, I shared what we can learn spiritually from the Advent season during my monthly Relevant Radio Morning Air segment. You can listen to the conversation here. During our chat I mentioned some of our family’s favorite Advent and Christmas season books. One of my most treasured traditions – and one that doesn’t require hardlyRead the whole post >>

The masks we wear

My two oldest daughters recently had a chance to get all dressed up as well as flex their social muscles at their middle school masquerade dance. They both returned home with a glowing review of the event. It was Rachel’s first dance, and I was so happy it proved to be a positive experience. IRead the whole post >>

Fertility, femininity, motherhood, wisdom, and #postcardsforMacron

Mom of *only* 5, so I guess my cerebral capacity won’t be called in to question…yet. So just in case, here are my stats: graduated in 3 years summa cum laude from @universityofga Honors Program. Booya. #postcardsforMacron A few days ago on Twitter (that’s my tweet up above), I jumped on the very important #postcardsforMacronRead the whole post >>

Loving my here and now body

Never did I ever think I’d post a photo of myself in a swimsuit on social media. Fully-clothed selfies take me out of my comfort zone, so a selfie of me in a swimsuit? That’s damn right terrifying, especially when I’m occupying a body that I don’t always love for reasons that transcend what IRead the whole post >>