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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
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
What's saving my life right now.
Life changes! And we grow and change along with it.
Kathy Gallagher
Sep 8, 20248 min read
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
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
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 surreal adventure began on a glorious August day as my Honda wound through the intriguing, ever-changing Columbia River Valley and dumped me, plunk, in a Walla Walla parking lot. From there the real magic took hold. Susan McBride’s broad grin welcomed me. I’m pretty sure this woman is herself magical. Endless energy and vision propel her wi
Kathy Gallagher
Mar 23, 20228 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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