Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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You can read my latest column at Inside Catholic: Mom the Missionary. Comments are open over there. Have a good weekend, and happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. My husband and I have his end of the year party tomorrow night (date night – woo-hoo) and then on Sunday we’ll be headingRead the whole post >>

· June 18, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns, Encouragement for Moms · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Summer First Aid

I’m sharing summer first aid tips over at Faith & Family LIVE! today. Anyone have any harrowing creepy crawly tales? Do share over there! UPDATE:  A reader left a helpful comment pointing out my oversight of not including any natural remedies for some of the summertime ailments I mentioned. Any suggestions for some natural alternativesRead the whole post >>

· June 9, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns, Health · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

There was a boy who I thought was the “one.”  We met in college – not at some rowdy co-ed party – but at the Catholic Center on campus. Maybe that was my first mistake. I’d so badly wanted to find the “perfect Catholic guy” that I was blinded by bliss and never saw “IT”Read the whole post >>

· May 13, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns, Spiritual Growth · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Get Those Creative Juices Flowing

I’m over at Faith & Family LIVE! sharing tips on how to get your kids’ creative juices flowing with tried and true writing exercises. I’d love to hear how you nurture your children’s inner Hemingway. See you over there!

· April 29, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns · Filed Under: Creative Writing Workshop

One Love, Two Faiths

My secret’s out over at Faith & Family LIVE! today. :-)  Nearly everything about me is Catholic except for, well, my charming, wonderful husband whom I met long ago on the high school mock trial team and was later reunited with shortly after I graduated college. This topic is near and dear to my heartRead the whole post >>

· April 15, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns · Filed Under: Mixed Marriages

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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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