Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday, I sat in the chair at WEDU/PBS Tampa stationpreparing for an interview about my book, MOTHERING MOTHER on the “Up Close with Cathy Unruh Show,” and I touched my mother’s broach. June 21st is the first day of summer (my favorite season), and it’s the anniversary of my mother’s passing. And this year, it felt [...]
Posted in Daddy, Father's Day, Walter Conkrite, World War II, books, bookstores, caregiving, daughters, eldercare, emotional, family, healthcare, inspirational, internet, marketing, mothering, mothers, nbc nightly news, relationships, spiritual, women, writing on June 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Although I wrote Mothering Mother, in truth, I’m a Daddy’s girl. I have a theory: we unconciously sort people into good-guy/bad-guy categories. Heroes and villians populate our worlds. The problem is most people are neither.
Daddy was my hero. I was adopted when I was four years old and he was fifty-eight. That’s quite an age span, [...]
Posted in books, bookstores, caregiving, dark humor, daughters, eldercare, emotional, family, healthcare, inspirational, internet, marketing, mothering, mothers, relationships on June 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Since April, I’ve signed copies of Mothering Mother in more than 30 bookstores. To most people, this might seem glamorous. It is and it isn’t. Finally holding my fledgling book in hand is the fruition of more than a decade dedicated to the art and craft of writing. But this book has a bitter sweet [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 1, 2007 | No Comments »
I took a day trip to Cumberland Island and stood in front of a burned out house. http://www.nps.gov/cuis/planyourvisit/placestogo.htm. It was the home of Thomas and Lucy Carnegie. The land was a gift from her husband after she learned about Catherine Greene, another woman (wife to General Nathaniel Greene, right hand to General Washington) who lived on this [...]
