Carol’s daughter, Kim, is a writer who has been writing for 20 years. She has written three novels and several other books and has received two starred reviews from the New York Times Book Review, plus two starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews. She has also been a finalist for the American Book Award, an honorable mention for the National Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has her own website at www.carolsdaughter.com.
I love this. It’s like a bunch of older, wiser women getting together and sharing the stories of their lives.
Like some of the other girls who have had their own blogs, but don’t get in too much trouble for it.
CarolsDaughter.com is a blog I started for one of my favorite bloggers, Carol K. Johnson. Carol wrote for the Chicago Tribune and was an editor at the Chicago Tribune Magazine. I also know Carol through her books, The One and Only Carol K. Johnson (HarperCollins 2014) and Carol’s Daughter (Random House 2016).
This blog serves as a place I can put all the stories from my life here. It’s the same kind of posts as my personal blog, but with a different focus. I post about my life, my likes, dislikes, what’s going on in my world, my family, and my pets. I try to make it as interesting and easy to read as possible, and it’s been a great fit.
Here I go. I am posting all about my life and my family. My children are two and a half, my grandchildren are three and a half, and they’re all grown. I have my two daughters, two nieces, two grandkids, two little ones, three little ones. I am also married to the most beautiful woman I know, and I am the only person I know who is going to have a child who will be able to read and write.
I am also a dog person. I have a four-year-old Siberian Husky named Carol whose family just moved here from Michigan, and whose favorite food is cheese and cats. I also have a Chihuahua named Marley whose family moved here from the Midwest a few years back, and she loves to play fetch. I also have a Chihuahua named T-Dog, and I love to play fetch with him.
If you look up the story trailer and you get confused by some of the descriptions of the characters and their relationship to their parents, you might not be able to get the full message. Those descriptions are actually fairly accurate, and it’s hard to miss them. This is why we make the second level of self-awareness so effective, because it allows us to stay on autopilot forever.
While self-awareness is one of the most powerful things on the Internet, it is not a cure-all. It does not magically remove all of your problems but it does help to remind you that you have the power to fix them. So if you want to have better relationships, be more organized, and not have a ton of anger in your life, then you need to be on autopilot to some extent.
I think that one of the most important things that people want to know about themselves is whether they are on autopilot. And the more you know, the more you can fix. The fact is, I know that I am not in control of all of my decisions, but I do not have the power to change them for me.