Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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Poetry Analysis

If you saw the following lines from a poem by Grace Nichols, what would you guess the poet was talking about? Tall and blue true and open So open my arms have room for all the world for sun and moon for birds and stars Yet how I wish I had the chance to comeRead the whole post >>

· April 12, 2008 · Tagged With: Homeschooling, Lessons Kids Teach Me · Filed Under: Creative Writing Workshop

Why I Write

Today I gathered around a kitchen table of a friend’s with four pint-sized wordsmiths. A mom in my homeschooling co-op invited me to come over because her son had apparently decided he wanted to be a writer after we did a creative writing exercise together. She wanted me to tell him what he could doRead the whole post >>

· April 4, 2008 · Tagged With: Homeschooling, Writing · Filed Under: Creative Writing Workshop, Fiction

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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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