Generation X is stuck between the metaphorical rock and a hard place.
As the first latchkey/daycare generation, we long for the authentic, intimate community that typically our families of origin didn’t provide. However, we also have no real model for how to create community.
So we’re try-ers. We experiment a lot with things that we [...]
Raise your hand if you know someone who is completely obsessed with scrapbooking. Oddly enough, as much as I love the idea of preserving and sharing family stories, I’m not really all that into scrapbooking. This may be due to residual guilt over the fact that I still haven’t finished my eldest child’s baby book [...]
It’s a little ironic that I wrote last Friday about surviving the whirlwind…
And then Sunday, we ended up with no power after the remains of Hurricane Ike spun through the area.
LG&E reported about 300,000 without power due to the event in Louisville, and when I called Duke Energy (the Indiana provider) they said that [...]
Depending on how you found me and the nature of our relationship, you may know me as coffeecupkat, Kat French, Katina French, Katina Beckham French, or (and this is pretty much strictly if we’re related by blood) Tina. So what gives?
About a year or so ago, I started the ball rolling toward legally reinstituting my [...]
Whenever I’m having a particularly neurotic moment at work, I always jokingly say that I’m a writer, and it’s a requirement that I be at least a little screwed up. If I ever got all my issues worked out, the other writers would probably throw me out of the club.
I was reading Rebecca Denison’s [...]
I’m now about three months into bouncing merrily through this new phase of my life that started roughly about the same time I started my current job. Have you changed jobs recently? If not, let me remind you what it’s like.
It’s basically as if someone walked into your office, pulled out all the drawers, [...]
I tried not to write about this day. Tried ducking my head. Tried bobbing and weaving. Tried tossing a million other ideas into the blender that is my head while hitting “Frappe.”
But it comes back like a boomerang. Better than a boomerang–I’ve never been able to get those blasted things to actually return.
It’s seven years [...]
You’ve probably noticed that things look a little different around the old iBard digs. As much as I liked my old theme, and as much positive feedback as I got about it (from the vaunted James Chartrand of Men with Pens, no less!) there were a few problems. So in honor of James’ visit, I’m [...]
