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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

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...

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 17, 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 25, 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 21, 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 9, 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 29, 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 23, 20193 min read