These “reflections of an ordinary life” are anything but ordinary.

By Jesse Kornbluth
Published: Mar 29, 2017

Katrina Kenison is one of those people who would much rather get you talking than gas on about herself. Her life, she contends, is “ordinary.” Her writing, she’ll say, is about small things. But as I’ve learned, late in life but maybe just in time, the little moments are the big ones: watching TV with the kid, a postcard to a friend, the last words before sleep. In Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment, Kenison serves up her small moments so accurately and tenderly they read like one-act plays. Now she’s collected her blog posts and other writing in which she “searches for the story beneath the story” in “Moments of Seeing: Reflections from an Ordinary Life.” When I find myself in times of trouble, I read a take or two, and feel a smart, gentle hand on my forehead, and, more often than not, the fever cools. [To buy the book from Amazon, click here.]