Kathy GibbonsRecord-Eagle features editor
Kathy Gibbons
Kathy Gibbons is the Record-Eagle features editor. She has been writing a column for about 14 years, starting out with stories of pre-school and play dates and now viewing life from a new vantage point as an empty nester with two children away at college. Over the years, her work in features and columns has garnered awards from the Associated Press, Michigan Press Association and Suburban Newspapers. Her column appears every Thursday in the Record-Eagle's Our Town section.
Kathy Gibbons is the Record-Eagle features editor. She has been writing a column for about 14 years, starting out with stories of pre-school and play dates and now viewing life from a new vantage point as an empty nester with two children away at college. Over the years, her work in features and columns has garnered awards from the Associated Press, Michigan Press Association and Suburban Newspapers. Her column appears every Thursday in the Record-Eagle's Our Town section.
2007 Archives
AUGUST
- Caught between what she wants and what is
- Trying not to be stupid and failing
- Show and tell: Big debate on cleavage
- Reflecting on real life and movies
JULY
- Great divide in way people view hours
- Recognizing significance of a moment
- Closed when it seems they'd be open
- It's a week for making memories
- Wishing for blinders in checkout line
JUNE
- Coming to terms with a world minus limbo
- Reading from one generation to another
- Sicko's message should strike a nerve
- The different faces of Generation Y
MAY
- Underneath it all? A matter of loyalty
- When truth is better than fiction
- Freedom interrupted for parents, too
- Column hits a nerve for some readers
APRIL
- Expressing the unthinkable in verse
- Innocence lost for college kids
- Sometimes it's any driveway in a storm
- Parental matchmaking is alive and well
- Learning to use wallet is losing battle
MARCH
- One visit is worth a thousand words
- After a mastectomy, a local artist creates a book of hope
- Some kinks in newfangled check system
- Solving a mystery in wintertime
FEBRUARY
- No coming attractions in going solo
- It takes more than one CD to equal cool
- Kindness overwhelms local soldier with ailing wife
- If only it was out of sight, out of mind
JANUARY
- Moment of triumph at the tree farm
- Soldier tends to family as wife recovers from childbirth
- Getting ready to rearrange the furniture
- Meeting one in a million twice
Read Kathy's 2006 columns: click here
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Kathy's columns prior to March 1999 are not online.
