Diary

Karen on August 1st, 2011

Have you lifted your kid’s backpack lately? Ugh!  When I first got my Nook, I commented to friends that I hoped schools went to eReaders one day.  My son, Nathan, had back surgery to correct Congenital Kyphosis a few years ago.  He’s doing well, but I’ve worried about the toll heavy books might take on [...]

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Karen on June 15th, 2011

This past weekend, I traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for the 20th Annual Southern Christian Writers Conference.  I attended several nice workshops and met some wonderful folks.  It was truly a blessing. I decided to enter my Parents magazine article, “Nathan’s Wonder Slide,” in the conference writing contest.  On Saturday, I learned my entry won first [...]

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Karen on April 12th, 2011

In August of 2009, I connected with a lovely mother, Sylvie Stephens, through my Nathan’s Prayer website.  Her baby daughter, Sydney, was a patient at Children’s Hospital in Minnesota.  Sylvie and I exchanged long emails over a period of time as we hoped and prayed for Sydney to be healed as she battled a congenital [...]

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Karen on February 11th, 2011

Guest blog by Jenn Merket Whenever I think of Valentine’s Day, my first mental image isn’t of a romantic candle-lit dinner for two, or of clinking champagne glasses or a bouquet of roses. Instead, I am transported back to the early 1990’s, where I sit in a circle of school desks, bedecked in a red [...]

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Karen on December 28th, 2010

This is Nathan with his new niece, Honey Jane.  He says, “Hi, baby.  This is your funky unky.” 

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