Kay Harms

Someone to Fight My Battles

It’s bad enough when you’re in the midst of a tumultuous situation. I’ve been there and you have too. You feel like you can’t quite get your head above water. The waves of frustration, disharmony, friction, or simple, ugly trouble keep washing over you like foaming, salty ocean water. One troubling situation compounds another. One conversation gone south converges with… Read More

Watching for Royalty

I’m a little behind most of the world, but I will watch the royal wedding of the century in about an hour. We tend to live in TiVo time here in our house. We watch the Superbowl a little later, American Idol the next morning, and Good Morning America during the afternoon. With the convenience of TiVo at my finger… Read More

How to Salvage a Mess

My daughter Abby took up knitting not too long ago…again. I suppose the weather was chilly and some good movie must have been coming on TV because she suddenly decided she needed some yarn and knitting needles. And so with a skein of dark green yarn and fresh knitting needles she clicked away through the movie, blissfully contented. Until she… Read More

What I’ve Learned from “The Kennedys”

This weekend I made the mistake of getting hooked on the TV miniseries, The Kennedys. I say it was a mistake because miniseries tend to be time consuming and irreverently biased or one-sided portrayals of a string of events. I’m sure this one is no exception. While I find the story I’m watching to be intriguingly interesting, I’ve no doubt… Read More

Dig It Up!

This weekend I’ll be doing some digging. Now while I have great appreciation for those of you who are gardeners and enjoy digging in the earth’s soil, I’m not much for digging in dirt, planting things, or even keeping living things alive. I don’t mind sweating, but I hate getting my hands dirty. Unless I’m getting them dirty with something… Read More

Battle Tactics

I’ve heard it said that army generals have studied the book of Joshua to glean from the battle tactics that helped the nation of Israel chase out its enemies in record time. Well I live in an army town and I watch Army Wives on Lifetime every Sunday evening, but I’ve never heard of a Joshua Course or a Joshua… Read More