Kara writes about the divide that is mothering children while still mothering her spirit and the sacred. She also speaks with reverence about all things home life and small-scale farming. She aims to see life as holy and for her, motherhood has been like a camera lens coming into focus. You'll find her writing about motherhood, faith, friendship, teaching, marriage, anxiety, juggling it all, and all things home life here on Mothering the Divide.
Kara's work has been regularly featured on The Huffington Post, The Today Show, Parenting.com. Scary Mommy, and Mamalode. Her work has also been published on Club Mid, Mamapedia, Your Tango, Pathoes, and other sites. In addition, much of her work has been featured on the Today Show’s social media sites and Kara has over 2.8 million readers on her Today Show webpage. In 2015, her essay, “To the Mom at the Water Park,” was the third most viewed article on Today Parents for the year. Kara’s work has also been seen in other ways, as she was the Contributing Editor at Cargo Literary, a travel magazine, and was on the advisory board for the film, Zero Weeks—a film discussing the lack of paid parental leave in the United States. Her first book, A LETTER FOR EVERY MOTHER, was co-written with Regan Long and published in April of 2018 with Hachette Book Group under Center Street/FaithWords.
Kara is married to Mike , her high-school sweetheart, and is the mother of Matt and Maggie, two children who inform all of her perspective. She's been teaching English for 17 years. Together with her family, she does small scale farming on the family homestead, Cardinal Hill, a southern-style farmhouse located in the Allegheny mountains of Pennsylvania. Much of her work draws on the natural world found just right outside her door.
The divide to her is mothering all of these parts of her life, as she mothers her children. As she sees it, the divide is trying to balance it all and embracing the beauty of mothering, in general. Kara writes about children and identity with a spiritual, reverent tone. Often, her work is a form of prayer, as she truly believes that observation is a form of prayer. She says “thank you," over and over again, all day long. This has helped her realize how beautiful her life really is, despite its relative disappointments and hardships and her battles with anxiety. Her writing is honest and authentic, and while she acknowledges, openly, that life isn’t always easy, she truly believes that nothing worth doing usually is easy. Join Kara and her Facebook community of over 54,000 strong here.