Author Archives: MMK

There are not two political parties. There are those who wish to be used by the powerful and those who believe as our founders did that liberty issues from God alone and it is up to man to create with it what he will…security, welfare, happiness.

I was 45 before I had the chance to really live on my own. Before that I had been married for twenty years. Before that I was a student supported at least in part by my parents. It was a thrilling as it was terrifying. For the first time I could organize my life asContinue reading “Living with Abandon”

Today I want to write about waiting. I’ve been thinking about this, the way some people can’t wait for the light to turn green but I am relieved when I finally hit a red (don’t get me wrong, sometimes I’m in a terrible hurry too!). I am always looking for an opportunity to finish applyingContinue reading “The Practice of Waiting”

I was disturbed reading my church bulletin today. First there was a notice that they had had to suspend their historically annual Thanksgiving meals to a needy community due to the pandemic. The second thing was a notice to the congregation not congregate with other parishioners before or after the church service, to “move immediatelyContinue reading “What would Jesus do?”

I am sitting here in my “command center” at my dining room table which serves as office and school room as well as a place to gather for meals. Sometimes as moms out day starts off fairly sane, hopeful, with us feeling in control. Depending on the day this can quite quickly erode depending onContinue reading “To do …or not to do”

This is Level II stuff. Please don’t read if you think everyone can just get along after divorce. This is not everyone’s experience although it is what I hoped for and jealously long for when I see it in others’ post divorce lives. I thought long and hard about posting but this is for thoseContinue reading “Not about the election but other tough stuff”

It really hits home, you really realize how someone messed with your mind, and how you let them, for so many years when, the first weekday of “falling back” from Daylight Saving to standard time…he calls to tell you it is time for you to pick the kids up from his home snd take themContinue reading “Believe in Yourself”

Virtual Tour of 703 106th Ave N, Naples FL 34108, USA. — Read on tours.boutiqueimagery.com/public/vtour/display/1633768 This was my COVID lockdown project. Lots of sweat & tears (no blood fortunately!) in this renovated 1960s retro baby. For sale now!

My current book club book is Indigo Girl. It is a historical fiction novel about 17 year old Eliza Lucas, left in charge of her father’s plantations in colonial South Carolina. She fights every day to make a profit from the indigo crop and stakes her family’s fortune toward it but experiences nothing but failureContinue reading “We can choose bitterness or love”

My current self says to my past self… Think about why someone would want to move every time you become settled… Why would he talk you into building a house that becomes your dream house as you fill it with babies…only to talk you into selling it with the dream of raising your boys onContinue reading “Notes to Self…and Maybe Others”