Katrina Kenison

more photos (2)

year in books

Katrina Kenison’s Followers (215)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
Carl
31,092 books | 4,561 friends

Devin R...
2,234 books | 116 friends

The Bro...
971 books | 69 friends

Jennife...
3,634 books | 437 friends

Lisa Sa...
567 books | 242 friends

Miranda
979 books | 198 friends

Melissa...
522 books | 51 friends

Lara Hu...
753 books | 186 friends

More friends…

Katrina Kenison

Goodreads Author


Born
in Philadelphia, The United States
October 03, 1958

Website

Twitter

Genre

Member Since
August 2009

URL


"I write to remind myself of how I want to live and who I want to be," says KATRINA KENISON, author of three beloved memoirs that, together, chart the seasons of a woman's life.
Her first book, MITTEN STRINGS FOR GOD: REFLECTIONS FOR MOTHERS IN A HURRY, now a classic for parents of young children, is a compelling invitation to do less and enjoy life more -- in a culture that urges "bigger, better, faster."
THE GIFT OF AN ORDINARY DAY: A MOTHER'S MEMOIR celebrates the small pleasures and the small moments of family life, (which of course are not really small at all).
MAGICAL JOURNEY:AN APPRENTICESHIP IN CONTENTMENT, an intimate memoir of loss and change, growth and transformation. speaks to any woman who has ever mourned the passage of tim
...more

“choose an unimportant day”(and enter to win a book!)

I spent much of yesterday sitting in the chaise on my screened porch immersed in “Our Town.” Although it’s been years since I last read the play, there was a time when I knew every line of it by heart. Returning to Grover’s Corners now, on a languid summer afternoon, I was caught off guard by just how familiar it still feels and, at the same time, how alive and fresh and real. I certainly didn’t e

Read more of this blog post »
 •  0 comments  •  flag
Share on Twitter
Published on July 16, 2023 10:24
Average rating: 3.89 · 23,564 ratings · 2,737 reviews · 34 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Gift of an Ordinary Day...

3.79 avg rating — 3,660 ratings — published 2009 — 22 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Mitten Strings for God: Ref...

4.16 avg rating — 1,775 ratings — published 2000 — 26 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Magical Journey: An Apprent...

3.98 avg rating — 1,076 ratings — published 2013 — 17 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Moments of Seeing: Reflecti...

4.55 avg rating — 58 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
Mothers: Twenty Stories of ...

by
3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Gift of an Ordinary Day...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
La Voz De Los Ninos

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Best American Short Sto...

by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
Rate this book
Clear rating
Beginning Statistics

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
Mailand. Go Vista. City Guide.

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Katrina Kenison…
My Ántonia
Katrina Kenison is currently reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Facing the Music:...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
A Little Devil in...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 

Katrina’s Recent Updates

Katrina Kenison rated a book it was amazing
Abra by Joan Barfoot
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katrina Kenison wants to read
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katrina Kenison wants to read
Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katrina Kenison entered a giveaway
Bear by Julia  Phillips
Bear
by Julia Phillips (Goodreads Author)
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katrina Kenison rated a book it was amazing
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
Rate this book
Clear rating
More of Katrina's books…
Quotes by Katrina Kenison  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“Not a day goes by that I don't still need to remind myself that my life is not just what's handed to me, nor is it my list of obligations, my accomplishments or failures, or what my family is up to, but rather it is what I choose, day in and day out, to make of it all. When I am able simply to be with things as they are, able to accept the day's challenges without judging, reaching, or wishing for something else, I feel as if I am receiving the privilege, coming a step closer to being myself. It's when I get lost in the day's details, or so caught up in worries about what might be, that I miss the beauty of what is.”
Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir

“When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.”
Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir

“...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.”
Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
Maya Angelou

“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”
Mary Oliver

“You’re only as happy as your least happy child,’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.”
Sarah Payne Stuart, Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town

“Life feels precious. It is.”
Katrina Kenison, Moments of Seeing: Reflections from an Ordinary Life

93678 Ask Katrina Kenison & Margaret Roach - Monday, February 25th! — 48 members — last activity Feb 27, 2013 05:41AM
Join us on Monday, February 25th for a special discussion with Katrina Kenison & Margaret Roach. Katrina & Margaret will be discussing their newest wo ...more



No comments have been added yet.