#TBThursday: Published by Story|Houston, this creative nonfiction essay explores memories of my childhood. Sometimes the passing of time helps sort out the confusing joys of an upbringing.
Category: family
“Resurrection” live on Story|Houston
Story|Houston published my literary nonfiction: Resurrection.
“Resurrection” on StoryHouston.com
“Annuals were too fake for your taste. They had an artificial quality-a burst of flamboyance and then gone forever. Their blossoms were a little too scripted. But their alternative-the perennial-tested all of what was supposed to be substantive and eternal.
What Shakespeare Taught Me About Family
“Perhaps everything we need to know about familial relationships can be learned from Shakespeare.”
http://www.indianavoicejournal.com/2015/06/essay-by-kathryn-streeter-what.html
Today, on The Good Men Project.
Raw square-footage was less important than PLACE for this family. Want a simple family life? Go urban. Go small. Be free.
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/simple-as-italian-bread-dg/
“Simple As Italian Bread” on Mamalode.
“We knew that our young daughter had internalized our commitment to place over space. At school she was asked to define “neighborhood” and she wrote confidently from her own experience: “A neighborhood is a place where people live, work, and play.” Not bad for a six-year-old.
At its core, the simple life for us was wrapped up in our appreciation for walkability. That summarizes our family’s definition of a good place, and that’s what we tell our realtor every time. We want to be able to walk to the coffee shop, grocery and pub. We’ve resided in apartments and townhouses. Once we even tried a single-family home. Today, as a family of four, we live in a downtown high-rise with two teenagers. We haven’t owned a lawn mower since 2001.
The urban life necessitated a smaller home out of which blossomed the simple life.”
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Through the Sand — Creative Non-Fiction by Kathryn Streeter: A Driving Lesson From Dubai
Buckle up! My creative non-fiction essay was just released by the online magazine Semaphore:
https://yoursemaphorecontent.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/creative-non-fiction-by-kathryn-streeter/
Originally published by The Briar Cliff Review, Volume 26.
Creative Non-Fiction by Kathryn Streeter
Through the Sand
A Driving Lesson from Dubai*
“Let Go Of Your Travel Agenda. Organic Adventure Will Catch You.”
This is it, folks—the full story on elephant journal. Originally published in a
condensed version by Great Moments in Parenting, I had a passion for seeing
this story more comprehensively understood, for the sake of begging the
question once and for all: shouldn’t we all just ditch our rigid travel
agendas? Isn’t it the bare unknown that is by definition adventure? You tell
me…
Sometimes it’s our little ones who teach us how to live.
The Good Men Project
Thanks @goodmenproject for publishing my essay What Potty-Training My Son Taught Me About Myself (originally published on BLUNTmoms). My pride was exposed. What about you?
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/what-potty-training-my-son-taught-me-about-myself-dg/
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