Category: Words to Kori Jane

• Mothers and Daughters

  

  Dear Kori Jane, Being the mother of a published author fills me with immense pride and maybe just a tiny bit of fear of the stories you’ll tell about our crazy family! A few weeks ago, your little sister came home concerned about my reputation after being asked by a friend if your poems were…

  Laura Spaulding

  February 17, 2025

  Family and Faith, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Unity in Diversity, Words to Kori Jane

  beauty, childhood, Faith, Family, friendship, grace, grandparents, Grief, growing, healing, joy, motherhood, mothers, Parenting, travel

• Four Years Later

  

  Dear Kori Jane, Exactly four years ago this week, Leap Day 2020, in King County Washington, the first US death from Covid-19 was reported. The reality of what was unfolding in Seattle had not yet hit us down here in Houston. Hundreds of thousands of Houstonians were still gathering daily for the annual Houston Livestock…

  Laura Spaulding

  March 3, 2024

  Family and Faith, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Kori Jane

  anxiety, beauty, cancer, childhood, Children, covid19, death, Faith, Family, grace, grandparents, Grief, growing up, healing, high school, joy, middle school, motherhood, mothers, natural disaster, Parenting, poems, poetry, teenagers, travel, truth

• Never Alone

  

  Dear Kori Jane, Last year, this mother of yours reluctantly agreed to an all-day bike ride through the mountains of Montana. As you are aware, I’m not exactly fit and I have no cycling experience. Our dear friend Devon, having traveled this road before, assured me the trail was mostly downhill, and the views would…

  Laura Spaulding

  November 1, 2023

  Family and Faith, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Kori Jane

  adult children, beauty, bicycling, Children, cycling, darkness, depression, Faith, Family, friendship, grace, Grief, growing, healing, joy, light, middle age, motherhood, mothers, nature, Parenting, strength, truth, tunnels

• Grocery Stores and Dirty Floors

  

  Dear Kori Jane, In the two years between Daddy and I’s wedding day and you crashing our party, I used to love going to the grocery store. Perhaps because I’d lived with my own mom right up until that very moment, so the thrill of being in charge of filling a refrigerator and pantry with…

  Laura Spaulding

  June 5, 2021

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Kori Jane

  childhood, Children, creating, Education, Faith, Family, grace, graduation, growing, growth, high school, joy, Parenting, siblings, spiritual gifts, teenagers, writing

• Junior Year

  

  Dear Kori Jane, You are 16. A high school junior. In fact, you’ve just started the second semester of your junior year. We were warned junior year would be brutal, and right about now you’d be ready to throw in the towel. You are no doubt just as sleep deprived, over committed, under nourished, and…

  Laura Spaulding

  January 18, 2020

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Unity in Diversity, Words to Kori Jane

  childhood, Children, college, Education, Faith, Family, grace, high school, joy, junior year, Parenting, stress, teenagers, theatre kids

• The Rain

  Dear Kori Jane, Twelve years ago almost to the day, you and I were heading to a little neighborhood carnival right by our home that we had passed that morning on our way to church. It was nothing fancy, just some hand painted wooden games set out on card tables and a bounce house or…

  Laura Spaulding

  August 4, 2019

  Family and Faith, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Kori Jane

  Children, Faith, Family, grace, grandchildren, Grief, joy, loss, Parenting, rain