Hiking Alternatives and a Question
I am really disappointed that for some reason my card reader isn't working...I just love adding photos. I wanted to post our fun "alternative to hiking" photos: Kathy on a bucking bronco ride,and Nicole on the zip line and bungy jump. She much prefers both to hiking...
On a totally unrelated note, I have been following (another) tell it like it is Christian Author, Matthew Paul Turner's blog and he has added video clips to his blog. Not just photos, but video clips. And it is amazing, because he and his wife are eagerly anticipating the birth of their son Elias, and Jessica is in labor and he is posting video updates (informational in nature only). Of course, for those of you who know I have taught childbirth classes for over twenty years, for me this is doubly sweet. A new mode of communication I may need to check out instead of just photos, and the wonderful experience of labor and birth. You can visit them at: http://www.matthewpaulturner.com/ and check on the blog link.
Anyway, here is a question for you guys who pop in to visit and read: I was talking to my friend Mary this afternoon, who every once in a while says she needs a "Kathy Fix", meaning it is time to catch up by phone so we can whine together, and carry on about the various antics in our lives. She can always count on me to circumspectly tell it like it is. Well, since phone conversations aren't always possible or practical, (like right now, for example, I can't find my cell phone...I know I took it out of the little pouch I had it in yesterday, thought I threw it on the bed, but have rustled through the several matching and color coordinating covers on the King bed...LOVE the king bed! and haven't found it and don't have another one with which to call myself...anyway, the battery is probably dead...) I asked her if she had stopped by to visit my blog yet, where she could always get caught up. She said, "no" and I said, "well, it is kind of just like talking to me" and she was wondering if that was such a good thing...(uh oh, do I talk like Jesse Jackson off the mic?)
So here is my question: Is it like talking to me, is it too honest, or is it a pretty good reflection of the blog title...after all the blog is called Truth and Transparency (and if you are reading this, Gwen, it cracks me up that you know more about how our vacation is going than Erin does). Gwen is a friend, reader, and fellow softball mom, and Erin is our older son's girlfriend who is taking care of Tianna, our older daughter while we are hiking and finding other various non-hiking alternatives to keep Nicole happy.
You see, Gwen said something or asked Erin something about the trip that she didn't know the answer to, and Gwen said something to the effect of, "Don't you read Kathy's blog?" to which she said no, so Gwen filled her in on how much Nicole detested hiking. Apparently it didn't go without saying that I am pretty honest. Mary was concerned, I think, that I might at times get too honest, a kind of TMI stream of consciousness that, well, could come back to bite me. But then we agreed that if we always viewed ourselves as "talking on the mic" (after all, Jesus is the ultimate mic, no? He knows our heart, after all...) then honesty is OK.
So I am curious about what you think.
I tried to post this last night, but my computer got whacko on me, and wouldn't let me, so I am going to see if the card reader works, so if there are photos, I momentarily conquered technology, which isn't something that happens often. Rats, still can't get the photos to work...promise to work on that! The one of me on the bull ride is pretty funny.
Peace!
On a totally unrelated note, I have been following (another) tell it like it is Christian Author, Matthew Paul Turner's blog and he has added video clips to his blog. Not just photos, but video clips. And it is amazing, because he and his wife are eagerly anticipating the birth of their son Elias, and Jessica is in labor and he is posting video updates (informational in nature only). Of course, for those of you who know I have taught childbirth classes for over twenty years, for me this is doubly sweet. A new mode of communication I may need to check out instead of just photos, and the wonderful experience of labor and birth. You can visit them at: http://www.matthewpaulturner.com/ and check on the blog link.
Anyway, here is a question for you guys who pop in to visit and read: I was talking to my friend Mary this afternoon, who every once in a while says she needs a "Kathy Fix", meaning it is time to catch up by phone so we can whine together, and carry on about the various antics in our lives. She can always count on me to circumspectly tell it like it is. Well, since phone conversations aren't always possible or practical, (like right now, for example, I can't find my cell phone...I know I took it out of the little pouch I had it in yesterday, thought I threw it on the bed, but have rustled through the several matching and color coordinating covers on the King bed...LOVE the king bed! and haven't found it and don't have another one with which to call myself...anyway, the battery is probably dead...) I asked her if she had stopped by to visit my blog yet, where she could always get caught up. She said, "no" and I said, "well, it is kind of just like talking to me" and she was wondering if that was such a good thing...(uh oh, do I talk like Jesse Jackson off the mic?)
So here is my question: Is it like talking to me, is it too honest, or is it a pretty good reflection of the blog title...after all the blog is called Truth and Transparency (and if you are reading this, Gwen, it cracks me up that you know more about how our vacation is going than Erin does). Gwen is a friend, reader, and fellow softball mom, and Erin is our older son's girlfriend who is taking care of Tianna, our older daughter while we are hiking and finding other various non-hiking alternatives to keep Nicole happy.
You see, Gwen said something or asked Erin something about the trip that she didn't know the answer to, and Gwen said something to the effect of, "Don't you read Kathy's blog?" to which she said no, so Gwen filled her in on how much Nicole detested hiking. Apparently it didn't go without saying that I am pretty honest. Mary was concerned, I think, that I might at times get too honest, a kind of TMI stream of consciousness that, well, could come back to bite me. But then we agreed that if we always viewed ourselves as "talking on the mic" (after all, Jesus is the ultimate mic, no? He knows our heart, after all...) then honesty is OK.
So I am curious about what you think.
I tried to post this last night, but my computer got whacko on me, and wouldn't let me, so I am going to see if the card reader works, so if there are photos, I momentarily conquered technology, which isn't something that happens often. Rats, still can't get the photos to work...promise to work on that! The one of me on the bull ride is pretty funny.
Peace!
Labels: bungy bouncing, childbirth, hiking, honesty, Matthew Paul Turner
posted by www.kathypride.com at
11:34 PM
1 Comments:
You crack me up!
No you're not too honest (honestly!). If you were, I'd tell you so (you know that!). And by the way, I'm a Sanguine Personality and we tend to be honest by nature (which as you know can get us into hot water). But our saving grace is we add humor and zest to life. A very good thing. Since three-fourths of what I do is with cancer-related events (including oncologists!), trust me...there is a GREAT NEED for truth, humor, and lots of transparency!
HUGS!
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