Kim Catron
An Advent Season of Writing (or not?)
For those of you not familiar with the church calendar, Advent is the season that leads up to Christmas. Advent is a time of waiting. A...
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Kim Catron
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Threshing of Straw has officially sold over 25,000 copies!
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Kim Catron
Kim Catron
- Oct 2, 2022
- 2 min
RETIREMENT!
Let me be clear, I am no where near retirement, but I am closer to it than I have ever been. Unlike 31 years ago when I walked into my...
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Kim Catron
- Sep 6, 2022
- 3 min
Coffee and tea and pet peeves
I have a pet peeve. And it's silly how much it annoys me.It shouldn't, but it could so easily be remedied that it makes me mad that it...
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Kim Catron
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
Punctuation
My daughter punctuates all of her text messages with exclamation points. For some odd reason, this makes me feel good. Great, actually....
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Kim Catron
- Jun 16, 2022
- 2 min
LIBBY- for online books!
I've been spending a lot of time lately in the car on long drives (think 7 hours each way, 22 hours each way-- you get the picture). Most...
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Kim Catron
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
Doing Disney (again!)
We are going to Disney World next week for our annual family vacation...to Disney World. It's the same family vacation we did last year,...
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Kim Catron
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
Why Stephen King and Jodi Picoult don't need your reviews (but debut authors do!).
Let me set the scene: Stephen King’s 65 th novel is about to be released. You liked the first 49, were a little discouraged with 50-53,...
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Kim Catron
- Mar 31, 2022
- 2 min
$1.06
I take pleasure in the small things. Little things truly do make me happy. There's nothing better than getting a refill of fountain soda...
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Kim Catron
- Mar 18, 2022
- 2 min
Wordle...oh, Worlde!
I freely give up the first 2 attempts at Wordle in order to gain my footing. I start always with MOUSE (a tribute to Mickey). It's a...
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Kim Catron
- Jan 30, 2022
- 2 min
Masterpiece and 9pm bedtime
There's nothing that makes me happier in the winter than watching the clock turn to 9pm and knowing that I can go to bed. The darkness is...
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Kim Catron
- Jan 1, 2022
- 2 min
In the center of the ring.
It's 2022. I need to let that sink in. It's 2022. I can vividly remember being downstairs in our rumpus room (aptly named by my husband...
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Kim Catron
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
It's a Wonderful Life!
Dear friends, I cannot thank you enough for your outpouring of support over this past week for my debut novel Threshing of Straw. I...
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Kim Catron
- Nov 29, 2021
- 2 min
Author's note
Almost a decade ago a character came into my mind—a little 9 year-old African-American girl from Georgia—Macey May Johnson. She refused...
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Kim Catron
- Nov 26, 2021
- 1 min
What is Threshing of Straw about?
"A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkable years before. A father lost in his...
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Kim Catron
- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
Did I order that?
Let me set the scene. Last month. Home for the weekend to close up my family home before the closing.Before it is no longer my family...
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Kim Catron
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO DEFLECT
Life ebbs and flows. As Charles Dickens once said, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." I stenciled that adage (I'm...
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Kim Catron
- Sep 8, 2021
- 3 min
The Nest is Empty
It's happened. My house, minus my husband; our dog, Jane Austen; and our cat, Dudley; is empty. My children are now both at college. It's...
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Kim Catron
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
The Knob
I posted a picture on my author facebook page of a rather pretty knob. I know, a knob. But it's a pretty knob. It's a knob to use on a...
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Kim Catron
- Jun 4, 2021
- 3 min
The lasts
As a young working mother, I was bombarded with rules about “the firsts.” All the baby books are about firsts. I must write down my...
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Kim Catron
- May 16, 2021
- 2 min
Tiny libraries
I think tiny librariest are adorable. You know the ones. They are scattered through small towns, on people's front lawns, in parks. They...
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Kim Catron
- Apr 26, 2021
- 2 min
The Ordinary
I have an app on my phone called "1 Second a Day." The idea behind it is to take a picture everyday for a year. The app compiles them...
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Kim Catron
- Apr 11, 2021
- 2 min
Ghirardelli brownies
If you've never made Ghirardelli Triple Chocolate brownies, you haven't lived. There has never been a brownie baked, boxed or from...
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Kim Catron
- Apr 5, 2021
- 3 min
Don't stretch the cord!
I was talking with my friend the other day on the phone. It started the way the majority of phone calls start. 1. I had called her. 2....
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Kim Catron
- Mar 28, 2021
- 2 min
The movies
I love going to the movies. I love sitting in the back row of the theater, the screen in front looming large and all enveloping. I love...
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Kim Catron
- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
be still
For the longest time I yearned to be still. I yearned to be able to incorporate that self-reflective, breathe in and be grounded type of...
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Kim Catron
- Feb 27, 2021
- 2 min
Birthday
I turned 51 today. I will now need to live to be 102 to be considered middle age. I came across this Facebook post today from 2 years ago...
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Kim Catron
- Feb 20, 2021
- 2 min
Budgets...yes!
Budgets make me giddy. Sit with that for a minute. I LOVE to make budgets. I make a monthly budget for household...
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Kim Catron
- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
My first (and forever) love
When I was 18 my cousin asked me to go see a tarot card/palm reader with her. It was the summer of 1988, and I had just graduated high...
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Kim Catron
- Feb 6, 2021
- 2 min
Walking the ring of kerry!
On December 29, a few days after Christmas, I set off on my 124.3 walk around the Ring of Kerry. I've done it before by motorcoach, a few...
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Kim Catron
- Jan 30, 2021
- 2 min
Shhh....it's Bagel Boys!
For going on 19 years (it really could be more- time blurs together after five), my husband has been part of a secret society known only...
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Kim Catron
- Jan 22, 2021
- 4 min
Validating Existence; validating loss
I wasn't prepared for March 22,2000. It came out of nowhere, blindsiding my sense of safety that I had been holding close like a...
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Kim Catron
- Jan 15, 2021
- 2 min
"I wrote my way out"- Hamilton
As I reader I've always been interested in what makes a writer write. What is it? When did they know it's what they wanted to do? Was it...
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