"Seen in the right light, through the right eyes, everything is extraordinary."
I am a mother of two, a a wife to one, a life-long reader, wanderer, and--I will admit it here--an aspiring yoga teacher.
When I’m not at the kitchen sink, on my yoga mat, or hunched over a computer keyboard, I spend too much time worrying about things that are out of my hands anyway, and not enough savoring life’s simple pleasures: stillness, friendship, poetry, a walk in the woods.
I write to remind myself of the things I already know, to stay in touch with my wiser self. And also to make sure that I do pause long enough each day to appreciate life as we live it -- right here, right now.
About the author
A graduate of Smith College, Katrina Kenison spent many years working in publishing, first as an in-house editor at Houghton Mifflin Company in New Haven, New York, and Boston, and then, from 1990 through 2006, working from home as the series editor of The Best American Short Stories. She also co-edited, with John Updike, The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the author of Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry. With her yoga teacher, Rolf Gates, she wrote Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, and with Kathleen Hirsch she co-edited an anthology of short stories about motherhood, Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood.
Her writing has appeared in O, Real Simple, Family Circle, Redbook, and other publications.
Katrina lives in the New Hampshire countryside with her husband, sons, and their faithful border collie, Gracie.