Kathy Brasby Blog
How Stories Teach Us To Be Better Leaders
Leadership happens in odd and tricky places sometimes. I’ll bet Aaron Brantley would have been thrilled for someone be a leader as he crawled across a concrete parking lot to get help. Brantley was attacked at a busy Detroit gas station, left with a broken leg. He...
Christmas Cookies
Long before Pinterest could puncture our creative bubble, there was the nativity Christmas cookie cutter set. I sometimes call Pinterest the dream site: I can only do those projects in my dreams. The cookie cutter set was like that. The box seduced me with photos of...
Don’t Look
I had just finished rinsing the shampoo out of my hair when my cell phone rang. I grabbed a towel. Who was calling? My sister. “Cover your eyes,” I said, draping myself with the towel. Water ran down my face. She hung up. Should I call her back? Should I dry myself...
What’s with cookie dough?
“The best way to eat cookies,” said our young guest as he plopped a spoonful of cookie dough on top of a baked cookie. “Best.” And that made me think about my cookie-making history, because I thought I had seen every method of eating and snitching bookie dough. But...
All Natural
I live in Colorado farm country. That blends a very dry climate with some hard-working and practical folks. Which means you see some weird stuff at the farm store. As I stood in the checkout line, I saw a little display box containing little white tubes of a product...
Drowning a dragon
I had one of those coughs that made your toenails rattle and, after a morning of listening to my hacking, a co-worker gave me the evil eye. “That sounds like a smoker’s cough,” he said. “I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life,” I said. But I had to take it back....
Those eyes
I’ve heard of husband eyes but hadn’t really experienced kid eyes until the Christmas tree deal. This eyes thing shows up when someone is sent to a location to look for something and they can’t find it. My older son, who is now a husband himself, tells me that his...
Duck Mama
I’m all for devoted mothers but this was special. Mama Bear kind of special. We live on a hobby farm and at one time had a brace of Moscovy ducks. I had to look this up but did you know that a group of ducks can be called a brace, badelynge, bunch or a flock? While...
Warning labels
Mint plants should come with warning labels. I would have done things differently had I known. But I bought my mint plant when we moved into our house eleven years ago expecting to have to nurture the tiny leaves. I tenderly planted the tiny sprouts, protecting their...
