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January | 2014 | Karen's Cracked Cup
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Karen's Cracked Cup. The Road You Want to Take. The last time I was completely happy behind the wheel? It would have to have been when I was about four years old and the wheel was attached to a Dukes of Hazzard dashboard. My summer as a seventeen-year-old-driver-in-training was the worst of my life. Again, not an exaggeration. Was not enough to distract me from my driver’s training depression. My driving instructor, Mr. Southwell, thought I would be a good student. He explained that kids who don&...Even ...
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October | 2014 | Karen's Cracked Cup
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Karen's Cracked Cup. Something to Tell You. On Audrey’s first day of Kindergarten, I took the photo below. On Audrey’s first day of first grade, I took the photo below. And the night before Audrey’s first day of second grade, realizing we hadn’t made a cutesy poster, I shot up in bed with an, “Oh, crap! The year that Audrey turned 6, Jack turned 4, and Andrew turned 2, I wrote each one of them a special birthday poem. I love that you ask questions like this: “Which do you like better? I love that even wh...
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May | 2015 | Finding My Way
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A journey toward wholeness. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: May 2015. May 9, 2015. This is a post that I began working on over a year ago, so the timing is a little off. I tend to be a perfectionist when it comes to my writing, and frankly, I haven’t made it a priority in the last year. On the eve of the second Mother’s Day without my Mom, I need to write. I have been silent for too long. I’ve always received accolades [. Baby within a five mile radius [. K note: unl...
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Something to Tell You | Karen's Cracked Cup
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Karen's Cracked Cup. Something to Tell You. On Audrey’s first day of Kindergarten, I took the photo below. On Audrey’s first day of first grade, I took the photo below. And the night before Audrey’s first day of second grade, realizing we hadn’t made a cutesy poster, I shot up in bed with an, “Oh, crap! The year that Audrey turned 6, Jack turned 4, and Andrew turned 2, I wrote each one of them a special birthday poem. I love that you ask questions like this: “Which do you like better? I love that even wh...
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October | 2013 | Finding My Way
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A journey toward wholeness. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: October 2013. Dream a Little Dream of Me. October 30, 2013. I was walking down a street behind a very large street-sweeping machine, toward a harbor, a bit like Mackinac Island. I saw a couple up ahead of me cross the street to speak with someone. I rounded the corner and saw her, my Mom! Now, keep in mind, I see my Mom everywhere. I bawled through the entire service.]. I come from the Feldpausch family, whi...
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About | Finding My Way
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A journey toward wholeness. Skip to primary content. Hi, my name’s Kristin. [. Kristin Note: You just read that first line and responded with ‘Hi, Kristin’ in a slow, monotone voice, didn’t you? I’m in my mid-thirties and my Mom just died unexpectedly. I did not begin this blog because I believe that I have something unique and awe-inspiring to share with the world. [. K Note: Okay, there may be a small part of me that does think that, but I digress. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Enough | Karen's Cracked Cup
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Karen's Cracked Cup. When I learned about the dark sky park, I became uncharacteristically assertive. I want to go there. I want to go there. This. Summer. We pretended we didn’t hear Jack’s pleas to go home. The dark walk through the woods to the lake shore. A little unnerving, but turning around 5 minutes in wasn’t something the rest of us were willing to consider, so we pressed on, thankful Sean had remembered flashlights. We sat down in a tight formation. We had come almost 300 miles for this. Remark...
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August | 2013 | Finding My Way
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A journey toward wholeness. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: August 2013. August 7, 2013. Since my Mom’s death, there have been an abundance of birds in my path. [ K note: I tend to be one of those people that doesn’t believe that this is a coincidence. Much to my husband’s chagrin, I love to look for the meaning in EVERYTHING. But it seemed like a good general number to use. At the end of the movie Brave. Merida says to her Mother, You’ve changed! Have I usually see ...
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The Glue | Karen's Cracked Cup
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Karen's Cracked Cup. The night my father shot himself, my sister and I were whisked off to my best friend Becky’s house. I don’t remember the drive. There’s a lot that’s fuzzy about that night. But I distinctly remember being in Ed and Linda’s bed, tucked in beside my sister. We watched. We did not speak the nightmarish things we were thinking. Somehow, morning came. Linda and Ed helped glue me back together. Then, it was the neighbors who collected $200. They were the glue, too. The super glue was my mo...
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