blessings Archives - Karen DeBonis

Thirty-two years ago…reminiscing about motherhood.

By Karen DeBonis | August 13, 2018 |

I was prepared for a typical child. And I expected to be a perfect mom. Matthew and I were neither.

Reimagining family traditions.

By Karen DeBonis | March 31, 2018 |

I have to face the fact that our family traditions are broken and I don’t know how to revive them. I’m feeling melancholy, a little sorry for myself.

Blessings on my memoir.

By Karen DeBonis | March 16, 2018 |

I asked my parents to read part of my memoir manuscript–the story about how ill-prepared I was as a person and a mom for my son’s rumble with a brain tumor.