Nature - Kadine Christie - Author, Writer, Speaker, Creator

Eggplant Tango

Featured, Food, Garden, Life, NatureOctober 19, 201966Views 0Likes 0Comments

Eggplants are in season- I found 4 for $5 at my local grocery this week, and while they were not on my list, I just had to put them in my cart. But don't run out and purchase them without knowing how to sex them.Shame on you. That's not what I meant:-). Now that you're done shaking…

Tasty Pleasures

Education, Family, Food, Garden, Life, Moments, NatureOctober 4, 201970Views 0Likes 0Comments

I have been pussyfooting around vegetarianism for three months, and sometimes, all I want to eat is a meal of meats. At the top of my list is a medium-well steak topped with white-wine-infused mushrooms. My memory reminds me that preparing and partaking of this dish is equally satisfying. The sounds of the kitchen enraptures…

Stifling-Comfort

Children, Education, Family, Featured, Life, Moments, Motherhood, Nature, Race, Stories, TravelSeptember 2, 201970Views 0Likes 7Comments

Dear White Mom,You are making parenting difficult for me. I am a black mother living in a red state. Mothering black children in a white town. Black. White. Red. Colors are not so pretty, after all. The urge to suppress my anger is making me angry - injustice has a way of boiling one's blood.So far, I've been the one…

Finding JOY in Funky Town

Children, Chronic Pain, Education, Endometriosis, Family, Food, Garden, Homeschool, Life, Marriage, Moments, Nature, oophorectomy, StoriesJune 4, 201992Views 0Likes 2Comments

I'm in funky town.The root of my funk is unclear, but I know there are a few contributing factors:It could be that I'm completely frustrated, exhausted and annoyed with living in chronic pain.It could be the new hormones I’m trying to slow the growth of endometriosis.It could quite…

Middle Ground

Chronic Pain, Endometriosis, Family, Featured, Garden, Life, Moments, Nature, StoriesMay 10, 201969Views 0Likes 0Comments

The first time I visited Eden Garden State ParkI didn't know it would become my middle ground.I didn’t know that after each blood work, medical scrutiny, and procedureI would be leaving my doctor’s appointment wearing a cloak of sorrow. I didn’t know I would be catapulted from one extreme to the next:from the softness of…

Beauty in the Grit

Featured, Garden, Life, Marriage, Mindful Living,, Moments, Nature, StoriesMay 6, 201990Views 0Likes 9Comments

My Easter Lilies are blooming— TWO weeks after Easter. They are “late” but “on time” Each one renouncing the calendar using their own internal time-recorder to open their white lips and slowly reveal its inside.Easter Lilies are beautiful, But they stink And here, as in life, lies the challenge: finding the balance— The beauty in grit .Their stench and their beauty won’t last. In a matter…