I Love Who I Am When I’m With You
“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” Leo Christopher In the past, I chose friends using the strangest set of guidelines: I let the other person decide if we were going to be friends no matter the circumstances, even the woman who liked my husband more than she liked me, a friend who criticized my...
Down the Drain with Praise and Criticism
“Praise and criticism go down the same drain.” Betty H. I cut my own hair and kept its natural color ever since I grayed early and changed to a short hairstyle. No one cut it like I wanted, so I gave up on finding a stylist and bought a set of clippers. I’ve never colored because I imagined it turning the shade of a carrot. Family, friends,...
Anxiety Eats Creativity and Spits It Out Unless …
“Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.” Chip Conley from his article, Mastering The Anxiety Equation: A Remedy for Fearful Times (link included at the end of this blog post) I googled “anxiety” and up popped a funny meme. A girl in a cape captioned, “Anxiety Girl … able to jump to the worst conclusion...
Your Purpose, Your Burden
“What’s your purpose? The answer comes from what you’re willing to be burdened by.” Reverend Bruce Cote Early Sunday morning, this quote from the sermon sounded heavy. That was, until I jotted down, “It is an honor to be given a purpose.” I used to want my family to be happy, but now I want more for all of us. I want us burdened with a...
When God Isn’t Good
“Live (and die) so that anyone who knows you knows God is good.” The night before we left to meet family for Christmas, my husband John and I drove 45 minutes to Pawleys Island (Pawleys for short), a community where we bought a creek lot this past summer. We wanted to decorate the property by hanging an ornament and putting spotlights on the...
Fall On Your Knees
"Until your knees finally hit the floor you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.” Marianne Williamson in her book, A Return To Love For a long time, I joked about being a control freak when it came to relationships,...
Show, Don’t Tell in Writing and Relationships
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Chekhov Show, don’t tell. It’s how every writer wants to write and what every editor wants to read. Showing is the magic in Chekhov’s description of the moon. I’m figuring out that “show, don’t tell” also works magic in relationships. I wish I’d practiced...
Hi, I’m Kim.
I write about Getting Your Own Life While Loving the People In It which means we live our lives, honor our emotions, and show up for our relationships.
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