Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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As in God Public Broadcasting… Never underestimate the power of God or television in a 3-year-old’s life. Madeline: Mommy, can I watch Curious George? Me: No. We’re not going to watch any TV today. Madeline: Peeeaaaaasssss. It’s ‘ed-juuu-cational.’ [translation: educational] Me: That doesn’t matter. We don’t need to watch TV every day. Me again butRead the whole post >>

· May 17, 2008 · Tagged With: Mom Humor · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

The Mind’s Eye

Interpreting a work of art is a lesson in subjectivity. Take this recent masterpiece by Madeline. Each of us had our own idea what it was representing. Our intepretations are as follows: Mommy: A butterfly Daddy, the radiologist resident who clearly interprets other kinds of images all day and needs to get out more: ARead the whole post >>

· May 5, 2008 · Tagged With: Mom Humor · Filed Under: Madeline's Art

Out of the Mouth of My Babe

What I’ve extracted from the mouth of my very oral, very mobile, and very quick 10-month-old so far this week: 1. One piece of black sidewalk chalk2. A small rock3. An angel fish (of the small, plastic and Finding Nemo “tank gang” variety)4. A scrap of paper5. An unidentified, nearly fossilized, once edible piece ofRead the whole post >>

· April 24, 2008 · Tagged With: Mom Humor · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

The Watering Hole

· April 15, 2008 · Tagged With: Mom Humor · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Love Your Enemies

To the person who thinks my home phone number is a fax machine and started calling at midnight on a night when I actually went to bed before midnight and continued calling every 30 minutes until I took the phone off the hook at 1 AM, I am trying really, really hard to love you.Read the whole post >>

· April 14, 2008 · Tagged With: Mom Humor · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

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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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