Monthly Archives: May 2010

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  A missive from your messy hostess.

  Posted on May 27, 2010 by Kat French in real life

  My Dear Reader Friends, Thank you for coming along with me on this journey so far.  I appreciate it more than you know. It’s been hard for me to post here lately. I suspect it has to do with the tagline in my header graphic: “Wandering the web, full of wonder and stories.” I’m tired [...]

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  LOST: Thoughts just before The End.

  Posted on May 23, 2010 by Kat French in real life, story & craft

  Tonight is the very last LOST. Six years ago, I was a hot mess.  In 2001, my marriage went pear-shaped in a major way.  I spent most of 2002 dealing with the aftermath of that, until late in the year my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.  I spent most of 2003 dealing [...]

  Post Tagged with attention, community, distraction, Lost, transitions
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  Message in a bottle

  Posted on May 20, 2010 by Kat French in real life, story & craft

  My son doesn’t have a birth certificate.. He was born in Japan, so he has a “Consular Report of Birth” instead.  When he was born, the nurse at the military hospital told me “If you ever lose it, you have to request a replacement from the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.”  I once lost my own [...]

  Post Tagged with birth certificates, bureaucracy, cynicism, government, optimism, redemptive stories, Sudan
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  LOST: Thoughts after “Across the Sea”

  Posted on May 13, 2010 by Kat French in story & craft

  I don’t think that we’ve seen an episode as polarizing as Across the Sea since season 3′s unfortunate low-water-mark, Stranger in a Strange Land. Well, I say that, but the infamous “Jack’s tattoo episode” wasn’t so much polarizing as it was just horribly sucky. To those who disliked the timing of the mythological download, I disagree.  I [...]

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