Kim Catron
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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