by Kristin Demery | Nov 27, 2014 | Trends
My five and three-year-old daughters love to get “stuff.” It doesn’t matter what that “stuff” is. My daughter ran out of her room this morning, thrilled because she found a blue “fuzzy” (aka lint) in her room, and wasn’t it so soft? But regardless, their penchant for...
by Kristin Demery | Oct 22, 2014 | Faith
Earlier this summer, I wrote a post about my difficulties getting pregnant, how I was having a hard time curbing my own impatience and the increasing bitterness I felt at a situation that made me feel helpless and out of control. The positive response I received was...
by Kristin Demery | Sep 29, 2014 | Relationships
Each year when I see my doctor for my routine appointment, it comes up. Usually with a nurse, someone who is kind but impersonal, working their way through the checkboxes marking my family medical history, glossing over my paternal grandmother’s stroke and my mom’s...
by Kristin Demery | Sep 8, 2014 | Relationships
“What would you like to wear today?” I asked my four-year-old daughter as I opened her closet doors. Bouncing over, she announced: “Something pink!” A few minutes later, I heard her rummaging through her underwear drawer. “What’s the matter?” I asked. “I need pink...
by Kristin Demery | Aug 18, 2014 | Relationships
Leaving the gathering of women behind, I walk out into the soothing crispness of twilight, a sunset of brilliant pinks and oranges fading into dappled hues of violet and blue. Exiting the small town of Dassel, Minnesota, I head out on the two-lane highway, turning up...
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