Tag Archive for Kathy

Letting Go Of Fake Cheese

1 October 2013 / / 2 comments

I am frugal and stubborn. Close family and friends will immediately and passionately agree.

Fake cheese

Fake cheese

I spend two weeks deciding whether to buy socks and I use items until they fall apart. This also means many times in my personal and work-life, I’ve ignored signs for me to end something before it gets worse. But I don’t. Despite every indication from my intuition, I hang on for dear life.

Thus it was incredibly difficult for me to throw away what is arguably the world’s most hideous food item:

Parmesan topping.
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Hitting The Road

19 August 2013 / / Comments Off on Hitting The Road

I found a magazine among my stack the other day and flipped through it. It was a publication from the county in Northern California where, until recently, my mother Ann and stepfather Bob lived.

I read the ads and the few articles. The magazine was mostly designed for out of town visitors. I was particularly interested in the map on page 82.

There’s a covered bridge near their place?

I guess I did know that. Why on earth didn’t I check that out when I had the chance?

I was reminded of all the trips I decided not to make for no good reason. I skipped weddings and more.
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Pa Ingalls Had No Fear Of Intimacy

8 April 2013 / / 3 comments

How many times have you said “I have intimacy issues,” heard someone say he or she has a fear of intimacy or that they know a person who’s afraid of getting too close?

I know of one person who never said that: Pa Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie.

Behold the clipped-on ribbon trim in my hair. It’s my Laura Ingalls braids.

I was a big fan of the TV show. I used to pretend I was Laura Ingalls and clipped brown ribbon onto my short hair except during the season when eldest daughter Mary went blind. Then I pretended I was her so I could act out the dramatic scene when she actually loses her sight.

The show centered around the Ingalls family living in rural Minnesota during the 1870s. I loved how emotional and close the family members were. Pa was always laughing or crying. And despite Mary yelling at Ma once and essentially calling her a whore, they always talked it out, embraced, and life went on. Nobody was paranoid about appearing vulnerable and Laura didn’t talk trash to one sister about another sister.
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