At the launch for The Lost Husband, I read a short scene from the book, and then I also read an essay that I wrote a while back for an amazing project called The Prime Book. It’s a book of gorgeous, sumptuous pictures by the photographer Peter Freed that aims to redefine what it means […]
It’s been a heck of a week! We had a FANTASTIC crowd at the launch for The Lost Husband this week! It felt like there were a thousand people there, which can’t be right. But it was standing-room-only, and Brazos Bookstore sold out of books. I am so grateful to all the people who came […]
So I went to Ikea the other day. And I bought this clock. I’d been looking online for something cheery for our kitchen, but I hadn’t found anything. And I was getting impatient, because I kept glancing at the bare wall where a clock should have been. This one seemed fine. And cheap! And kinda […]
What does “success” mean in Katherine Center´s world? Success is doing the right thing for who you are. It’s living a life that matches and supports you. Do you feel you´ve made it as an author? As a woman? As a mom? What do you feel (if anything) you still need to do in life? […]
I’ve recently become a raving fan of author Katherine Center. She writes amazing essays and fiction books; a simple sentence can make my heart stop beating for a moment. Recently, Center took time out of her own busy schedule talk to me about her work: Angie: You first caught my attention when you posted the essay, “Nothing Worthwhile Is Ever Easy,” on […]
Our kitchen fell apart last fall. At Thanksgiving, actually. There was a leak under the floor that rotted out the whole thing from the underside up. And as I watched the flooring guys pulling up our kitchen floor with their bare hands like it was a wet paper towel, something great hit me: We’d hit […]
Excerpt from The Lost Husband My husband had been dead for three years before I started trying to contact him. By then, our house was long-sold, his suits were donated, and his wedding ring was in a safety deposit box. All I kept with me was a shoebox full of meaningless stuff: a button […]
Here’s Katherine telling the quick story—at a luncheon, ages ago—of how she wrote her first novel:
“. . . A sweet tale of creating the family you need.” —PEOPLE Magazine “There wasn’t a dull spot in this book–just a really great story about finding home and yourself . . . It’s really one of the best women’s fiction books I’ve read.” –Lisa “. . . a delightful, heartwarming read, and I […]
Summer is really not my season. Or I suppose I should say, Texas summer is not my season. Or climate. If we lived in Nova Scotia, I might well love summer best of all. But down here in Houston, it’s hot. Summer is mostly about coping for me. Going out in the steamy, hot, mosquito-ridden […]