A writer · A teacher · A life well lived
One of the things I had to give up when my husband died was the publishing contract that I had on my middle grade/high school fantasy novel that I had worked so hard on and was so excited to see coming to print. It was a gutting decision, but one…

John and I aren’t in the part of our relationship where he knows about my life in my early 20’s. He doesn’t know about my…
The kids are in the other room playing with the barbie house and the dominos that they got for their birthdays. Life has been very…

I become restless waiting for John to get to my house. I begin to nervously reclean the house that I had just spent the last…

A little under two months into our late-night phone conversations and messaging, John asks me to go and see a Broadway play with him. Out…

Hi, I’m Kate! I am the author of this blog that takes you on a journey from books to widowhood to teaching and everything in between.