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One step at a time.
On May 23, 2024, my husband, Jim Gallagher, entered the E.R. he worked in for 15 years, this time as a patient. Within days he was...
Kathy Gallagher
Jun 9, 20243 min read
If you don't come home (or even if you do)...
You stopped my heart the other day. We listened to one doctor and then a second one talk about your body, your labs, and what numbers...
Kathy Gallagher
Jun 1, 20248 min read
Easter has its lows and highs.
If like me you’re feeling all-too-human, you’ll understand the inner wrestling between the broken and the divine, the lows and highs of...
Kathy Gallagher
Mar 31, 20244 min read
Good Friday.
There wasn’t much that was good about that Friday. Well, maybe the self-righteous religious leaders, who somewhere along the line decided...
Kathy Gallagher
Mar 27, 20243 min read
The longest night of the year.
The darkness is advancing and the longest night of the year is coming. But so, also, is the light. I glance outside at the dark sky, and...
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 10, 20236 min read
Worship lessons.
Every bound toward me, every plaintive cry, every puppy kiss and the way her muscles relax in my presence teaches me a little more about...
Kathy Gallagher
Sep 25, 20227 min read
The Other Half of Hannah
Some people change your life forever. It’s impossible to calculate how many people have enriched and impacted me and shaped who I am over...
Kathy Gallagher
May 7, 20222 min read
Dark nights and daylight
You might want to rethink that decision you made hastily in the darkest of nights. Turns out in a dark night it’s easy to miss important...
Kathy Gallagher
Apr 2, 20222 min read
The hole in the middle of Christmas
For my friends who are grieving. I see you. At least I imagine I do. I see you walking around, looking so fine and doing Christmas. But...
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 21, 20214 min read
SAPS: Saturday Analysis Paralysis Syndrome.
I just made that up; it's not a real thing. Unless maybe you're an Enneagram Nine Wing One. Then you know exactly what I'm talking...
Kathy Gallagher
Oct 23, 20214 min read
Sunday perspective
If nesting with your journal is a luxury you have not yet discovered, let me prime the pump for you on this chilly Sunday morning!...
Kathy Gallagher
Oct 10, 20213 min read
Then and now.
It was a different time, yet the same somehow. Simpler, slower, smaller--but still with its full share of fear, disappointment,...
Kathy Gallagher
Jul 26, 202110 min read
Puppy Daze
If your story isn’t good, it’s because you haven’t arrived at the ending yet. I awoke in a daze, wondering about the odd, rhythmic,...
Kathy Gallagher
Jun 12, 20214 min read
Looking for home.
I'm feeling like I must either lose myself in the current of culture, or fight like a banshee to make the culture adapt to me. Fit or...
Kathy Gallagher
May 16, 20214 min read
Starting over.
What if loss and endings are the only way to find a new beginning? “The road rolls on like a welcome mat….” A confident, nasally voice...
Kathy Gallagher
Apr 25, 20214 min read
Purr anyway.
I’m going to have to print that on a T-shirt in honor of my sensei, the master who has been teaching me a thing or two about life for the...
Kathy Gallagher
Mar 13, 20216 min read
The snowball effect.
Three steps toward reversing the snowball effect of peripheral pain. The pain about pain is that it tends to gather more pain. I began...
Kathy Gallagher
Jan 16, 20217 min read
Plot twist.
Woven through the brokenness and unexpected nature of each personal struggle in 2020, I still see, every time, the grace threads, God’s...
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 31, 20204 min read
Silent morning, holy morning.
The coffee steams beside me, the silence is mine, the words flow. I have always loved rising before the rest of the world. By “world” I...
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 1, 20205 min read
Grief and wonder.
A week ago Jim and Molly were hunting with Gramps in Wyoming. This morning my father-in-law, George Gallagher, moved his residence to...
Kathy Gallagher
Sep 28, 20206 min read
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