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Chapter 1 My husband had been dead for three years before I started trying to contact him. By then, our house was long-sold, his suits...
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“charming and ...
Chapter 1 First: I got fired. For emailing a website with hundreds of pictures of breasts to every single person in our company. Even the...
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Chapter 1 The end began with a plane crash. Just before midnight on a Tuesday in February. A girl I’d never met or even heard of died, along...
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“There wasn’t a dull spot in this book–just a really great story about finding home and...
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What You Know Now
At the launch for The Lost Husband, I read a short scene from the book, and then I also read an essay that I...
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QUOTES
Here are some Katherine Center quotes–gathered from around the web. Feel free to add other favorites...
the girls
I’ve been feeling feisty lately. The brouhaha over Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten books of 2009 —...
s i s t e r s
I stumbled on this little moment in our old home movies over the weekend and couldn’t believe how sweet it was....
9 great things about my husband
It’s my 9-year wedding anniversary this week. (Nine years married, fifteen together.) And so, a nine-best ode...
something we got right
I spoke on a panel last weekend at the Texas Book Festival with the very charming Jancee Dunn, who has a baby....
more décor
posted on: Oct 29, 2009
Here’s another before and after. A really awesome mod chair from my grandfather’s building materials company that I snagged from my...
water girl
posted on: Oct 23, 2009
For the record, I’m all for store-bought costumes at Halloween. We’ve had many at our house. But this year, I got inspired to create....
kid-art wallpaper
posted on: Oct 20, 2009
So, as you know, when you have kids, you acquire a lot of kid art. And a huge amount of it is completely awesome. And the fact that your child...
this chair took over my life
posted on: Oct 14, 2009
A few weeks ago I fell into crazy love with a chair. Like, I actually gasped when I saw the picture of it on Craigslist. Gasped. And then I drove...
the mother of invention
posted on: Oct 12, 2009
I’m taking a little time off from writing. Not a lot of time off: just a couple of months. I just need to be creative in different ways for...
how stories can save you
posted on: Oct 8, 2009
Yesterday, after 11 days home with a sick 4-year-old, I went to the school I went to for Kindergarten through 12th grade to give a chapel talk....


