Katherine Center's Blog, page 12
August 5, 2009
the long-awaited kitten post
I apologize for the Blair Witch quality of the kitten photos. But they do illuminate some true things about my life:
1. My camera spends too much time at the bottom of my enormous purse–down with the pretzel crumbs and dessicated granola bars.
2. A small person in my house (and I'm not naming any names) threw the camera across the yard recently.
3. The kitten is pretty fast.
4. The kitten is a fluffer-nutter. A Twitter pal asked me what a fluffer-nutter was, and I'll admit that a fluffer-nutter
August 4, 2009
my sister's birthday
My big sister is about to have an important birthday–and to honor it, and her, my mom and dad and I went through our old family photos to make a little video retrospective.
This photo, in particular, is knocking my socks off. I'd never seen it until my mom gave it to me for the project. 
The video uses the song La Vie En Rose performed by Sophie Milman. It's a gorgeous rendition! Go buy it on iTunes!
Posted in news!
August 3, 2009
you saw it here first
My third novel, Get Lucky–on sale April 2010–now has a cover!
Now we just need to get it together with the words, and we're good to go.
Posted in Get Lucky, katherine's books, news!, visual art
July 31, 2009
handcrafted buildings
I'm obsessing over this amazing cob house in Texas today! The New York Times just did a profile of it, and it's so much like a house I stumbled on at the Children's Garden in Ithaca, New York, when we were just on vacation there. My kids were playing in this terrific troll house:
A woman at the park said her neighbor was the guy who built it. She gave me his name, and I checked out his website and I was just totally enchanted with the idea of these hand-built houses.
Here's what the troll ho
July 30, 2009
life on the D-list
Just got a message from my publicist at Random House that there's a section of Kathy Griffin's Bravo show My Life on the D-List that has my book cover in it! She has a book coming out with Random House, and she filmed a segment of the show at their offices. And right behind her, on the shelf, is my book. I wanted to post the segment here, but it got too confusing. So here's a LINK!
Posted in news!
July 26, 2009
here's where we've been on vacation:
This photo says a lot.
But I'll add these words, as well:
Wildflower garden.
Yacht club.
Farmers' market.
Alpaca farm (with chickens!).
Also: 75 degree weather. Gorges, and streams, and a lake. Grandparents.
And this, too: Lucky, lucky, lucky.
Posted in news!
July 21, 2009
writing wednesday: life with kids
Here's a Writing Wednesday about life with kids. The question comes up over and over: How do you do both? How do you get it all done as a mother and a writer? And almost every mother with little kids I know struggles with some version of this question. How do you get it all done? How do you take proper care of your children and yourself? (And here's a spoiler for the video: I have no idea.)
Posted in for writers, random, Uncategorized, videos, WRITING WEDNESDAY
July 17, 2009
caroline carefully arranges everything she holds dear
I found a link to this painting at live.life.create.art today and I'm totally breathtaken. The artist is Amanda Blake, and I just want to stare at this painting all day. Really, I want to go inside it. I'd love to know how to paint like that: to know how to make a paintbrush do that…
Posted in news!
July 16, 2009
you left footprints
Here's a little photo poem. The image here comes from one of my very favorite sites, Square America, an online collection of found photographs and snapshots. And the text comes from something I wrote years and years ago…
Posted in news!
July 15, 2009
100 things I am grateful for
It's been that kind of summer. The kind where it seemed like a good idea to make a list the things I am grateful for. I set out to make a list of 100, and once I got going, it seemed it would be just as easy to list a thousand.
But I stuck with 100. And then I made a video for the list: one day at my house this summer with my kids and my flip video. Watching it, I've decided this video feels–and sounds–a lot like my life.
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