Finding Joy with Kara Kavensky

Finding Joy with Kara Kavensky

Moms are complicated.

And other inconveniences.

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Kara Kavensky
Nov 20, 2025
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“I will kill her if she dies on my birthday.”

This was my second thought when I was informed (via a group text with people whom I do not know) that my mom had a stroke and was in the ICU.

My first thought was, “This is the sum of all of her decisions.”

In the microseconds it takes for thoughts to form, and being an ENTJ on the Myers-Briggs scale, I was als…

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