by Carrie Kuba | Jul 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
I would like to welcome you to the Round Table. There is coffee, tea, enough food to keep you nourished. I ask you to take off your shoes, remove all baggage and the burdens you carry, sit down, arms out in front, palms raised. This is a safe place. And it is a...
by Carrie Kuba | Jul 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
We say “if you could only walk a mile in another’s shoes” but frankly – most likely those shoes will not fit. Right? I am a sucker for metaphors, symbolism, idioms, even a hyperbole or two. No question. As a mother, I find this phrase to be a...
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 | Mar 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
I grew up in the House with the Cranberry Door. I remember my mother choosing the color for that door, swatches of blindingly similar hues slathered onto the back side of the door. How she remembered what shade was what, I’ll never know. My parents bought the...
by Carrie Kuba | Jul 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Bella had her first post-op appointment today. While in the waiting room, I found myself, like the fellow drones around me, reading a back issue of People magazine. I read a story about a celebrity who is in remission from cancer. Soon after her diagnosis, her mom...
