Kathy Ferguson

Kathy Ferguson
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Wildly in love with her perfectly imperfect life, Kathy’s been married to her most favorite person in the world, “The Professor,” for 14 years. They moved to Columbia from Atlanta seven years ago and are enjoying raising their two girls, Gracie (12½) and Tate (10) here. After undergrad and her MBA, Kathy worked in Corporate America for 10 years before retiring to work full-time for the girls. Most recently, she was a grant writer at a college here in town, but had to leave that job when her family moved to New Zealand for six months for The Professor’s sabbatical. She started her blog, kathygoeskiwi.com, to document that amazing adventure, but now she’s home and trying to figure out what to do with her life. Again. Probably the loudest and most foul-mouthed introvert you’ll ever meet, she can usually be found curled up with a trashy romance novel, on the tennis court, at her awesome gym, or drinking wine with people she loves.

The Leaving

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This is what I’m calling my youngest leaving for college in the fall: The Leaving. Capital T, capital L. Leaving, and leaving us with...

My Girls are Leaving Me and I’m Not Ready

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Both of my girls are leaving. My oldest is moving to France. For a YEAR. We leave to drop off my oldest on January 2. She’ll...

What I Wish I Knew When I Was a Younger Mom

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My youngest is a senior in high school – next year at this time, we’ll have been to her first parents’ weekend and managed...

What Would My Friends Say?

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One of my first friends from college recently died. We were close the first couple of years of school and then, as so often...

A Malaise for Writing

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As writers for Columbia Mom, we’re supposed to write posts every month. I’m a senior contributor since I’ve been around so long, so I’ve...

Always Check Your Sources :: A Guide to the 2024 Election

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Happy election season, guys! How’s it going? (Insert big eyes here.) I originally wrote this post four years ago, during the 2020 election cycle and...

Letting Go vs. Letting Grow

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Like so many of my posts, I started this one months ago. I started writing it right after my oldest daughter and I went...

A Love Letter to my Struggling, Doubting Daughter

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My daughter has depression and recently tried to kill herself. We hospitalized her for her safety, and I'll write about that later - I...

Perimenopause: What a Time to Be Alive

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Perimenopause. What even is it? Every January I do a Whole 30®, pretty restrictive elimination diet to try and put some discipline back in my eating...

It Is What It Is

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It is what it is. I've always hated that phrase. In the last couple of years, I’ve spent a lot of time in therapy and learned...

Looking for Joy in 2024

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It is my oldest daughter’s senior year in high school. We’re inching towards the end of it. What we’ve all been working for is...

Feeling Like Loose Change

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I feel like loose change. Middle-aged loose change. It’s not great. It’s a really weird time in my life right now. I’m kind of...

How Mourning the Death of a Friend Is Teaching Me to Love More

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I started this post back in April and just haven't been able to finish it until now. One of my best friends from high school...

A Parent’s Changing Role

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My youngest started high school this year. My little itty bitty baby (who just happens to be six inches taller than I am) is...