Peace with Kim

Sometimes lessons in life come around the corner, out of the blue and hit like lightening. I love that. I love it when I’m livin’ my life, feeling obtuse or obstinate about something and then the grace of clarity shines down upon me to wake me up. Yesterday, I was told about something that I did not approve of. I had to be professional about a situation I considered unethical. I just smiled, kept it to myself and moved on with my day. A few hours later, I was enjoying one of the best hours of my week, teaching Catholic religion class for a group of 4th graders at Our Lady of Perpetual Help. We talked about sin, and conscience. We talked about accepting others, no matter a person’s lifestyle, race, religion or any other difference. These bright, sweet, kids fill me each week with their pure spirits and desire to be good. Good and bad decisions at this age have much fewer levels of gray. We talked and shared ideas on how to be good disciples. We ended the hour with the story a...

“How’s the book?” It’s a caring and thoughtful question. I unfortunately don’t have a great answer which is frustrating the heck out of me! I hate excuses but I sure do have tons of ‘em lately. Computer crashed. Thought I lost everything. Documents found. Computer back under care of Geek Squad. Computer returned and used to update family pictures. Husband kindly, gently suggested I do the family Christmas picture so we’re not rushing in December. Great, done in October. Now to write on them. I do a lot of multitasking as a news anchor and as a mom, but I can’t do it with the book, at all. So, the book, the letters to literary agents, research etc sits. Sits. Sits. I talked with one agent. Nice woman. We had a great conversation. A friend suggested I keep looking. I did and then, the computer crashed so I haven’t done a thing. I’m frustrated with myself. I’m busy with work. I’m trying to be engaged with my kids and family. I need to work out. I want to keep up on the photo album. I ne...

Yesterday, our Community Correspondent for the theater talked about the latest run of Hairspray at Roger Rocka’s Dinner theater. He talked about how good the show is, and how fine the lead, Ashley Wilkinson, is as she plays Tracy. Here’s his blog: http://www.kmph.com/Global/category.asp?C=172090&nav=menu612_5_2# I’d like to add to Dean’s commentary- a little back-story. The lead in this play is showing the most amazing strength of character, it brings many who know her to tears. Ashley is living with a ravaging disease called Mitochondrial Disease. Mito What? Exactly. It’s a disease that isn’t widely known or understood. Simply, its when the mitochondria cells (which are supposed to give our bodies energy) go haywire and attack the body. Over the last year the pain has increased greatly for Ashley. It knocks her down. She spends time at the hospital or at home hooked to an IV of medicine to help ease the pain and give her body energy. Nothing can cure this. Despite this, she ma...

“Are you ready, do you need anything?” I shook my head and said, “I’ll just do what I do, and no technology changes that.” But now, as I’m anchoring our first High Definition newscast, I’m struck with perspective. True, I am still doing what I’ve been doing since 1988 – sharing news, information and personality with viewers. But I remember when I started; we shot on ¾ inch video. That was a big move from film, allowing people to get their news much quicker. Whew those were heavy cameras connected by cable to the heavy, awkward tape decks carried over the shoulder. We broadcast over standard, analog signals that every house received for free. Cable was still young. Heck, so was FOX. TVs were far from flat. Plasma was only what we studied in biology. Now, forget the film canisters from newscasts gone by. They are covered in dust in the rafters. The ¾ inch tapes, in their thick, black, plastic casings are up in the rafters too, and the beta tapes that followed, line a closet w...