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/
Coinciding with the time of year where thoughts turn to relationships, I’m happy to publish this story with The Good Men Project which faces the gritty reality of marriage against the backdrop of a grim visit to IKEA after moving internationally to London.
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-one-trip-guaranteed-to-stretch-your-marriage-dg/
Depicting a family trip to Germany taken ten years after my husband and I had lived there sans kids, this short essay probes the possibility of memories robbing the present if one isn’t careful. Today’s experiences, after all, are tomorrow’s memories.
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Psst. Very excited that Great Moments in Parenting has agreed to publish a short essay of mine! Hint….it’s another grand family adventure tale. Stay tuned for more…
Today’s cornucopia of self-help books, chat sites, blogs and Dr. Phil-types dispensing advice addresses the same sorry stuff Shakespearean characters wrestled against.
Just released today on Mamalode. Thanks for reading!
Next month, The Briar Cliff Review is publishing my creative nonfiction essay. It was a finalist in their Creative Nonfiction Contest. Thanks, BCR! This literary journal can ordered through their website or on Amazon.
What do spring break and The Gambler have to do with each other?
I recently finished reading The Gambler and spring break is around the corner. These two facts remind me of a spring break several years ago that included time in Baden-Baden, Germany, the historic casino town where Dostoyevsky wrote The Gambler. We wanted to share Germany with our kids, a country where we’d lived before-kids, two different times in fact. Actually, our daughter was born in Germany just 10 days before we moved back to the US the second time. I wrote the creative nonfiction essay (not yet under publishing contract) Building Family Muscle, One Tower at a Time to tell the story of that trip back with the kids. It’s a story of conquered towers and substantial family growth. Stay tuned as to where this essay is published. But in the meantime, read The Gambler on your spring break.
The Story-In-Motion link on kathrynstreeter.com offers a sneak peek at one of my stories which hasn’t landed—thus, ‘in motion.’ Currently featured, A Moving Tale describes a painful family trip to IKEA after moving to London. I knew it was going to be a big day. I knew it would be a very long day. But it proved to be a remarkably full day in ways I couldn’t have predicted.
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