Kate Wicker

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Teaching Kids About Charity {A Guest Post}

I’m honored to have Emily Kirchner sharing a guest post. Emily is a freelance writer for Discount Catholic Products, an online retailer of Bibles, prayer cards, First Communion gifts, and many more. She learned the importance of charity at an early age, thanks to her mom who always brought her along when doing volunteer workRead the whole post >>

· May 7, 2012 · Tagged With: Charity, Guest Bloggers · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

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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