Monthly Archives: September 2008

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  Stumbling towards community.

  Posted on September 24, 2008 by Kat French in relationships

  Generation X is stuck between the metaphorical rock and a hard place.   As the first latchkey/daycare generation, we long for the authentic, intimate community that typically our families of origin didn’t provide.  However, we also have no real model for how to create community.   So we’re try-ers.  We experiment a lot with things [...]

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  The Interactive Family Album Series: Capzles

  Posted on September 22, 2008 by Kat French in managing attention, relationships

  Raise your hand if you know someone who is completely obsessed with scrapbooking.  Oddly enough, as much as I love the idea of preserving and sharing family stories, I’m not really all that into scrapbooking.  This may be due to residual guilt over the fact that I still haven’t finished my eldest child’s baby book [...]

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  Altered by the unexpected.

  Posted on September 19, 2008 by Kat French in real life

  It’s a little ironic that I wrote last Friday about surviving the whirlwind… And then Sunday, we ended up with no power after the remains of Hurricane Ike spun through the area.   LG&E reported about 300,000 without power due to the event in Louisville, and when I called Duke Energy (the Indiana provider) they [...]

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  By any other name.

  Posted on September 17, 2008 by Kat French in real life

  Depending on how you found me and the nature of our relationship, you may know me as coffeecupkat, Kat French, Katina French, Katina Beckham French, or (and this is pretty much strictly if we’re related by blood) Tina.  So what gives? About a year or so ago, I started the ball rolling toward legally reinstituting [...]

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  Do you need to be a “tortured artist” to write well?

  Posted on September 15, 2008 by Kat French in story & craft

  Whenever I’m having a particularly neurotic moment at work, I always jokingly say that I’m a writer, and it’s a requirement that I be at least a little screwed up.  If I ever got all my issues worked out, the other writers would probably throw me out of the club.   I was reading Rebecca [...]

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  An Uncloistered Life

  Posted on September 12, 2008 by Kat French in real life

  I’m now about three months into bouncing merrily through this new phase of my life that started roughly about the same time I started my current job.  Have you changed jobs recently?  If not, let me remind you what it’s like.   It’s basically as if someone walked into your office, pulled out all the [...]

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