November 16, 2017 KimHarms 10Comment

Dee Dee Parker wrote a sweet children’s book when her daughter, Brooke, was undergoing treatment for breast cancer. All of the proceeds from the sale of Josie Jo’s Got to Know benefit Breast Cancer Research, Breast Cancer Awareness and Cancer Patient Expenses. Josie Jo’s Got to Know is available on Amazon, but Dee Dee kindly gave me a signed copy to give away here at Life Reconstructed. To thank you for reading my words, one of you will win this sweet, fun children’s book with fantastic illustrations. Thank you for spending some of the precious minutes in your day reading…

September 1, 2015 KimHarms 3Comment

Mary and Me, A Lasting Link Through Ink chronicles the lives of Mary Potter Kenyon and Mary Jedlicka Humston. The two have been pen-pals for more than three decades, and their friendship quite literally grew on pieces of paper. Having had a few pen-pals when I was young, none of whom I have stayed in touch with as an adult, I am impressed that their relationship lasted and grew as they lived through phase after phase of life. This is my first time reading anything by Humston, but I’ve read two of Kenyon’s other 3 books. She writes with such…

March 18, 2014 KimHarms 12Comment

Just a reminder if you are interested in a signed copy of Mary Potter Kenyon’s soon-to-be-released book, Chemo Therapist: How Cancer Saved a Marriage, leave a comment on my previous post. One of my handsome children will be drawing a name on Thursday.

March 13, 2014 KimHarms 12Comment

“While we had developed an extraordinary relationship, we had never been extraordinary people. We were just two flawed humans, who eventually discovered what it was to put the other first.” – Mary Potter Kenyon, Chemo-Therapist, How Cancer Saved a Marriage. Isn’t that what it’s all about? Discovering how to put the other first? Two flawed people committing their lives to each other and then hopping into life full-force, sometimes completely missing the planks in our own eyes while trying to dig the sawdust out of our mate’s. Anyone can have an ordinary-survival-mode type of marriage. It is only when we…

November 25, 2013 KimHarms

Rachel is the winner of Mary Potter Kenyon’s Coupon Crazy. Congrats Rachel!  I will get the book shipped out to you soon. Watch for another review and book giveaway when Mary’s second book Chemo-Therapist comes out in the Spring of 2014. Coupon Crazy is available for purchase on Amazon.