: About Me

Kari is a full-time wife and mom, spreading her arms out in the wide-open spaces of southeastern North Dakota-breathing and being, and loving every moment of it.

My passion is ...

serving and loving my Savior, my husband, and my family (in that order).

I know too much about ...

me, and not enough about other people.

My parents always told me ...

that I'd have a kid just like me. What do you know-they were right!

My childhood ambition ...

to be a detective.

My favorite memory ...

I'm lucky I still have my memory!

Why I write ...

because words come easier from the tip of my pen, than from the tip of my tongue.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I'm watching my husband paint.

My first job ...

Giving you your way at Burger King.

My best moment ...

will be the day I finish War and Peace.

My inspiration ...

a blank page waiting to be filled.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Going home to visit

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About Houses and Homes I backed my car out of the driveway for the last time and waved to Mom who was just turning to go back inside. I didn't pause to take that one last, long look at the house, or to memorize the way the willow tree drooped over the far left corner of the front yard, or to remember forever how the front windows needed cleaning the day I left home. I didn't peer up into the window of my old bedroom one final time or print the parting scene indelibly in my memory, like they always do in the books. I stomped on the gas pedal, revving my engine as I sped off down the street,...

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