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    Family,  The Kitchen Sink

    The Secret Ingredient To Better Parenting

    There's not a caring parent out there who doesn't want their children to grow into happy, resilient, self-sufficient adults. How we each go about trying to get to that place can be compared to a mountain. For every mountain with a peak, there are several routes to the top. Each is distinct, with its own merits and downfalls, but they all eventually find their way to the top.

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    On Parenting and Craving Oxygen

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  • Woman climbing fence
    On Being,  The Kitchen Sink

    Milestones And Failures Are One In The Same

    ecome our current-day lion, charging at top speed, eager to feast on our bones. It's as if we can sense it hunting us, lurking behind any risk, large or small, prepared to pounce and render us catatonic, when in truth, failure is primarily a matter of discomfort and the gateway to growth. But I'm not here to talk to you about failure. In fact, I'm here to talk to you about the exact opposite. I'm here to talk to you about what we often call "milestones." Poignant events in a life that definitively lay down a boundary between what was and what will be. Milestones can be as monumental as…

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    Don’t Ask This Question If You Want To Build A Meaningful Life.

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  • New Year's Eve Fireworks
    Food,  Mental Health,  The Kitchen Sink

    It’s Never Too Late To Begin Again

    Yes, I know it's already May. But all things consider, I'm giving myself a pass and choosing my word for 2021 today. It may not be January, but as my husband likes to remind me, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." That's close enough to New Year's for me!

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    Image with text, pen, and coffee. Paper reads, "Complexity and simplicity exist together. One does not cancel out the other."

    On Oranges And Complexity

    September 1, 2022
    Tacos Fall Apart & We Still Love Them

    Living a delicious life doesn’t mean what you think it does.

    June 25, 2020
    Sourdough Bread

    3 Unexpected Lessons I Learned Making Sourdough Bread

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Kate Smithson

I’m a dog lover, chocolate addict, warm bread sniffer, slow tea sipper, blank notebook hoarder, nomadic homebody. I seek out opportunities to live my life on purpose.


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