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Letters For Scarlet by Julie C. Gardner: Book Review

August 26, 2016 Kim Tracy Prince 4 Comments

Letters For Scarlet by Julie C. Gardner: Book Review

Back to school reading for grownups. By the time a woman is thirty, she has experienced loss, most likely. It's true for men too, I'm sure, but in Letters For Scarlet, a book about grief, friendship, grace, and courage, the losses are felt most keenly through the eyes of … [Read more...]

Books, General author, book review, books, debut novel, drama, fiction, friendship, grief, Julie C. Gardner, Letters For Scarlet, marriage, novel, reading, women's fiction

The Parents’ Phrase Book

April 23, 2014 Kim Tracy Prince 1 Comment

The Parents’ Phrase Book

It's been a while since I read a parenting book. I mean, come on. I'm a pro at this now, right? When we have our babies, we stock up on the guides and the girlfriends' advice and the blogs and the calendars. We look out for the developmental milestones and we compare … [Read more...]

Books book review, grief, parenting book, parenting is tough, The Parents' Phrase Book, Whit Honea

When Your Move-a-Body Friend Is the Body

April 13, 2014 Kim Tracy Prince 3 Comments

When Your Move-a-Body Friend Is the Body

2010, Granada Hills, CA On the night of Lisa's funeral, we gathered at her house, the other Notre Dame '93 gals and I. Lisa, Lisa, Suzanne, and Julie (yes, there were three Lisa's, once.) We drank her liquor. We told stories in her living room. And then we stayed the … [Read more...]

Seriously grief, Lisa, move-a-body friend, Notre Dame Football, woe is me

It’s All About Me

June 14, 2013 Kim Tracy Prince 5 Comments

It’s All About Me

Last night at a media preview event at a new restaurant, my friend and I struck up a conversation with the couple sitting at the table next to us. What followed was a discussion about blogs and media with two people who are not necessarily embedded in this medium the way I am. It … [Read more...]

Blogging, Seriously grief, mom blog, mommy blog, personal blog, woe is me, Writing

Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: “There’s Still My Joy” by Indigo Girls

December 20, 2012 Kim Tracy Prince 4 Comments

Songs That Stab Me in the Heart:  “There’s Still My Joy” by Indigo Girls

Last year someone gave me Indigo Girls' new Christmas album.  I played it on my computer while I was wrapping presents.  This song came on, and that was the end of that.  I had never heard it before.  It's a cover of an old Melissa Manchester tune. I brought my tree down to … [Read more...]

Music Christmas, grief, Indigo Girls, Songs That Stab Me in the Heart, There's Still My Joy

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