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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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“Cleverly told...
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...
my sister's birthday
My big sister is about to have an important birthday–and to honor it, and her, my mom and dad and I went through...
handcrafted buildings
I’m obsessing over this amazing slideshow of photos of this charming cob house in Texas today! The New York...
here's where we've been on ...
This photo says a lot. But I’ll add these words, as well: Wildflower garden. Yacht club. Farmers’...
writing wednesday: life with kids
Here’s a Writing Wednesday about life with kids. The question comes up over and over: How do you do both?...
caroline carefully arranges everything she ho...
posted on: Jul 17, 2009
I found a link to this painting at live.life.create.art today and I’m totally breathtaken. The artist is Amanda Blake, and I just want to...
you left footprints
posted on: Jul 16, 2009
Here’s a little photo poem. The image here comes from one of my very favorite sites, Square America, an online collection of found...
100 things I am grateful for
posted on: Jul 15, 2009
It’s been that kind of summer. The kind where it seemed like a good idea to make a list the things I am grateful for. I set out to make a...
revising a draft
posted on: Jun 29, 2009
Here’s me, yesterday, revising an early draft of a story. This is what it looks like early on–lots of writing all over the page:...
style with style
posted on: Jun 28, 2009
I grew up with The Elements of Style, but I guarantee my copy was nowhere near this gorgeous. Maybe it’s time for a new one. I might need to...


