by Carrie Kuba | Jun 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
I know exactly how it happened. It was a couple weeks after the birth of my daughter, and the trauma therein (including a MedFlight) had led to a pulmonary embolism. I was put on warfarin, a blood thinner, for a year. Tucked under my left knee, is this beautiful array...
by Carrie Kuba | Jun 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you were to ask what her secret was to her phenomenal cooking, her response would inevitably be:: “I cook each and every thing with Love.” Babička Eva grew up in the beautiful agrarian town of Opočno, in Moravia, near to the Polish border....
by Carrie Kuba | Jun 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
“You look like Nicole Kidman” “I am sorry, what?” “You really look like Nicole Kidman”, she said to me. “Um, okay”, I replied. This was said to me at the MOST inappropriate moment ever. Absurd. I had just finished...
by Carrie Kuba | Jun 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I took my two daughters to a medical practice for something routine. My eldest, always at the ready to greet anyone with a smile and a hug, produced both to those willing to receive them. My youngest, however, responded to the offer of physical...
by Carrie Kuba | Jun 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Maybe it is just the time in life. Maybe it is the stage of life that I am in. Regardless, there are many people in my village right now whose grief runs deep and wide. And unlike a Lifetime movie, it is jagged and rough. It is costly and relentless. It takes...
by Carrie Kuba | May 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
I was awakened by the noise. Living in a new flat, it is just a given that a cacophony would welcome us to the neighborhood. It was a warm California evening. The bedroom window was open in order to enjoy the ebb and flow of the coastal breeze. The noise was...
