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Tag: family
Does Oversharing Violate Your Marriage and Your Kids?
This is not a new conversation, but it’s timely. Please consider the value of allowing time to pass before you share anything family-related online.
“Mulling is a very good thing; at the very least it keeps me honest about my own culpability in a personal family anecdote I’m considering sharing.”
“Waiting helps provide cover for my marriage and children.”
Read the full story: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/does-oversharing-violate-your-marriage-and-your-kids-dg/
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/
“The One Trip Guaranteed to Stretch Your Marriage”
Today, WSJ Hilary Potkewitz probes the challenges IKEA presents to relationships in “Can Your Relationship Handle IKEA?” My personal testimony on this very theme was published by The Good Men Project.
“The One Trip Guaranteed to Stretch Your Marriage”
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-one-trip-guaranteed-to-stretch-your-marriage-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.”
Continue reading at…
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*
“I’m Not Who I Thought I’d Be at 40, and I Think I’m Ok With It”–The Mid
“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…
kathrynstreeter.com 