Jolie Kirsten's (jkirsten) Blog

     My mother’s best friend once said that she saw her life in chapters, each being its own story: a child with her parents and siblings, a young adult relocating to Austin, wife/homemaker/mother of four, marriage as empty nesters and grandparents, her life as a widow; and stories within stories...

Today I read a blog by Dale Bledsoe about a bird that got trapped in his office.   It reminded me of an incident that happened a few years ago when my children were small. An  American Robin made a nest in one of my hanging flower pots right outside my kitchen window, where she laid her tiny blu...

  A couple of weeks ago, before leaving for an overseas wedding, I found myself in overdrive mode, scrambling to tie up loose ends before passing the business baton to my backup support.  It was the day before departure and I still needed to pack our suitcases, have my son’s suit pants altered, b...