Kathy Ferguson
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.
Letting Go vs. Letting Grow
Like so many of my posts, I started this one months ago. I started writing it right after my oldest daughter and I went to her university orientation program and I was thinking about...
A Love Letter to my Struggling, Doubting Daughter
My daughter has depression and recently tried to kill herself. We hospitalized her for her safety, and I'll write about that later - I know it's an important story to tell, but I'm still...
Perimenopause: What a Time to Be Alive
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 because I go off the proverbial rails in November and...
It Is What It Is
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 the value and beauty of that sentence, which I’ve hated...
Looking for Joy in 2024
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 happening. And I find myself staring at her a lot...
Feeling Like Loose Change
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 in a holding pattern and I need to stay here...
How Mourning the Death of a Friend Is Teaching Me to Love More
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 died in late March, and I was reeling. His death...
A Parent’s Changing Role
My youngest started high school this year. My little itty bitty baby (who just happens to be six inches taller than I am) is a freshman. And my oldest is a junior - making...
How to Have a Family Vacation That Is Fun for Everyone
My husband and I recently did something we haven’t done before: we took a fun vacation with our kids.
Don’t get me wrong – we’ve been lucky enough to travel with the girls and haven’t...
Celiac Disease :: A Firsthand Look at What It Is and How to Deal...
May is Celiac Awareness Month. And if you don’t know what celiac disease is, you are not alone.
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease where the body views gluten, which is the protein found in...
4 Ideas for a Fun Girls Night In!
Isn’t this time of year the worst? It’s cold and gloomy, all the fun getting together with family holidays is over, and we’re just stuck with … winter. Nothing really to look forward to...
Tenderness and Care
Tenderness and care. Two things that I’ve had so much of the last year and am trying to achieve more of in this year.
Like so many people with the beginning of a new year,...
This Too Shall Pass
Parenting is made up of seasons. Chunks of time where we do a lot of the same thing, over and over. Then it changes and we do something a little bit different, over and...
When an Adult Friendship Is No Longer What It Used to Be
I, like so many of us lately, have had a rough go of it. There’s been a lot going on in my family and I’ve been pretty tightly wrapped up in that. Also, there...