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That Partridge in your Pear Tree
No one should spend Christmas Day alone in Weed eating potato chips.
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 20, 20245 min read
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Five Things
We are seeing everything with new eyes this Christmas season, because everything IS new. And also because our eyes are, well, aging.
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 9, 20244 min read
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Jazzy, Jelly, and Joy.
Some post-Thanksgiving reflections on marriage, mayhem, and dog-breath. It’s 3:30 a.m., and we assume the position, Jim and I. My head...
Kathy Gallagher
Nov 26, 20239 min read
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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
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Terroir and toast.
Wine is an expression of the place in which it grows -- the wind, the sun, the soil. Remarkable wines come from remarkable places. The...
Kathy Gallagher
Mar 23, 20228 min read
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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
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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
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Breathing again.
In a year already branded with uncertainty, wildfire is one more reminder that absolutely nothing is really within my control. Last night...
Kathy Gallagher
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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OWA TAGU SIAM
A little biblical foolishness. I take my Bible seriously. God is in heaven and I am on earth, so I’d better pay attention to the view...
Kathy Gallagher
Jun 26, 20202 min read
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Birthday in a blender.
She's twenty. I know by the morning light that my alarm didn’t go off. A second adrenaline surge hits my brain when through the fog I...
Kathy Gallagher
Jun 22, 20202 min read
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Couch church vs. Church church.
I’m missing the outside encouragement, but I’m relishing what I get in exchange--a louder, longer, more authentic dialogue with Jesus. A...
Kathy Gallagher
Jun 10, 20204 min read
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Literally dying.
Puppies don’t walk much. And they don’t even run so much as thunder about. But mostly they just hop around like popcorn. “HEEEEELLP!...
Kathy Gallagher
Aug 30, 20196 min read
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Giving birth to puppies.
I worry. I text Jim. I call the Vet. Why has labor stalled? We review potential scenarios and solutions, and spell out exactly when to...
Kathy Gallagher
Jul 24, 20193 min read
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