Becoming Peculiar — Adventures in a Backwards Kingdom

How Having a Disabled Child Has Made Me Closer to Jesus

September 17, 2018 by Kathleen Quiring 10 Comments

If you’ve ever read the Gospels, you will probably agree that Jesus is one confusing dude. (If you disagree, and think his message is actually quite simple . . . then you and I must not be reading the same book.) The guy speaks in riddles, answers questions with questions, and tells bizarre parables. At […]

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Filed Under: Disability Advocacy

8 Things I Learned This Summer

August 31, 2018 by Kathleen Quiring 11 Comments

I’m taking a cue from Emily P. Freeman and sharing what I learned over the last season. (I’m increasingly a fan of this type of post. Join me in reflecting on what I’ve learned over the last three months!) 1. I am AMAZING when I’m able to sleep. Just taking a nap at 7am, like […]

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Filed Under: Life Updates and Just For Fun

Raising Monarch Butterflies: Our Experience

August 29, 2018 by Kathleen Quiring 6 Comments

This year we had an awesome opportunity to watch the monarch caterpillar life cycle, when my sister found some eggs and caterpillars on the milkweed plants in her back yard and offered to let us have a few. We got to watch each stage a number of times over, so we didn’t miss a thing. […]

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Posts I’d love to write if only I had the chance to sleep at night

August 23, 2018 by Kathleen Quiring 23 Comments

(A gratuitous picture of snails on a toy boat. You’re welcome.) This is a list of titles of blog posts I’ve been wanting to explore, but currently do not have the mental capacity or time to actually write. For some of them, I’ve gotten as far as sketching out a rough draft. That’s about it. […]

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Filed Under: Blog News, Life Updates and Just For Fun

Sometimes I feel sad that I don’t make any money.

August 13, 2018 by Kathleen Quiring 18 Comments

I’m doing something different today: I just opened up my laptop and wrote what was on my mind, and am publishing it with minimal editing. Even though I recently said I prefer works that are heavily edited. Hey, it’s my blog, I can break my own rules. Sometimes it feels good to just share my […]

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Filed Under: Simple Living