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New Years Resolution 2019

December 31, 2018Krystine KercherReal Lifelooking back at 2018, moving forward in the new year, New Years Resolutions for 20194 Comments

My New Years resolution for 2019 is fairly simple: I don’t want the unachievable. I want to look back at the end of 2019 and realize that I not only achieved my goals, I exceeded them. That said, I do have an expanded list of resolutions (see below).
And I wanted to start with a look back at the old year… How did I do?
Looking back, 2018 was another hard year that started out with more wandering about lost in the middle of health issues beating me up and not being able to make much headway financially. This is not going to be a negative, whiny post–I promise!–but I had to say that.
There were huge emotional whammies that had to be faced and dealt with, but I did it and–survived! And I kept going.

My first New Years resolution for 2019 is to keep surviving, to keep getting back up again no matter how many times I get knocked down… and keep going.

There’s No Place Like Home

November 26, 2018Krystine KercherReal LifeDay of the Triffids, ice storm, The Wizard of Oz, there's no place like home, visit to Colorado

I agree with Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz: there’s no place like home! I don’t hate traveling, precisely–but traveling and I just don’t get along as well anymore. That said, I still travel when I have to. Colorado used to be home for us, so it creates this magnetic pull on us that keeps

Republican Members of Congress: You Are Tumnus

March 23, 2018Krystine KercherChristian Values, Real Lifealway winter and never Christmas in DC, betrayal of conservative values, clean up the swamp, letter to republican members of Congress, you are Tumnus2 Comments

Dear Republican Members of Congress, You are Tumnus.

How many of you have seen The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe from The Chronicles of Narnia? Do you remember that part where Lucy steps through the wardrobe between the pine trees and it’s snowing? Further on there’s a lamp-post. Just as she’s about to turn back, here comes the tap-tap-tapping of hooves, and—a very surprised faun, who drops his packages in fright, then accepts Lucy’s help in picking them up and offers her his umbrella…
He’s shy, a little awkward and flighty, very endearing… And of course Lucy agrees to go home and have tea with him even though he’s an absolute stranger, he’s not even human, and she’s never encountered anyone like him before in her life.

You, dear Republicans, are like Tumnus.

You want of course to be the likeable Tumnus Lucy meets in the wood, but… Tumnus has another side.

A Message of Hope

January 31, 2018Krystine KercherReal Lifea message of hope, Donald Trump, MAGA, state of the union speech 20182 Comments

Did you catch any part of Trump’s first State of the Union speech last night? Wow…wasn’t that an incredible message of hope? I was impressed with the way he singled out the heroes in the audience; with the credit he gave to individuals and to the American people for doing extraordinary things to save lives

Bubble Tea for Maria

May 28, 2017Krystine KercherReal Lifeboba tea, bubble tea, bubble tea recipe, life with cats, too many straws3 Comments

Do you know what ‘bubble tea’ is? For her birthday, Maria decided that some boba balls (the ‘bubbles’ in the bubble tea) would be the perfect birthday gift! We discussed the merits of popping boba versus the large tapioca pearl boba. I prefer the popping boba, especially after having been served a drink (once only, thankfully)

What Dad Means To Me

May 19, 2017Krystine KercherChristian Values, Real LifeDads, Father's Day, fathers, what Dad means to me, what does your dad mean to you3 Comments

Since Father’s Day is coming up, I thought I would talk about what Dad means to me! Dad is a good provider. He has kept a roof over my head since my divorce. Being a man of peace, he has also sought on countless occasions to calm those troubled waters. I’m very grateful to him

Physical Therapy – To Be Or Not To Be

May 12, 2017Krystine KercherReal Life, writinglots of tulips, physical therapy, prayer request, to be or not to be, writer therapy

Lately I’ve been feeling a bit like this frazzled yellow tulip! Pain does that. I went to see the doctor last week, and we talked about where I was with putting my health back together again. The thyroid situation seems to have stabilized, other mysterious things continue to go wrong, but–I seem to be doing

A Life Well-Lived Despite The Pain

April 25, 2017Krystine KercherReal Lifeenjoying the lilacs anyway, living life in spite of pain, migraine, the mother of all headaches2 Comments

I’m currently coming off another round with the mother of all headaches. I don’t get one of these too often, but when I do…YOWZA! I feel like one of those MOAB bombs exploded in the back on my head and took everything with it! Do you know what that feels like? Does it ever happen

Adventures In Sewing A Prom Dress

March 18, 2017Krystine KercherReal Lifeadventures in sewing a prom dress, large project limited space, toilet paper sewing tricks, unicorn dress, we're making a prom dress2 Comments

While my characters (especially Bjorn) have adventures of a far more active kind, I am having adventures in sewing. Back in January, my daughter messaged me with a link to a most incredible dress–and said that was the dress she wanted for prom! We both knew that there wasn’t any way that we’d be able to

Our World’s Climate Is Not Under Our Control

March 11, 2017Krystine KercherLegends of Astarkand Series, Real Life, wrestling with the spiritualclimate change, global warming, solar system mechanics, tectonic plate activity, volcanism, why we can't control the climate

The mainstream media has been going nuts this week because the new head of the EPA doesn’t believe that free carbon has any effect on climate change! There are a lot of different factors that come into play to create the climate we enjoy on our world. Volcanism and plate tectonics have a very powerful

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