Adventure is glamorous when highlighted in travel, especially to exotic cities around the world. Pictures provide bragging rights, and rightly so. What about instead of the extraordinary, we find adventure in our own little lives? I seek adventure, yes. But I also discover that when I write about this simple life I call my own, I find precious gold hidden just beneath the surface. These essays reflect a life well lived; an adventure stumbled upon, time after time.
Kim Patton is a wife, adoptive and foster mama, writer, and podcast host. She lives in South Carolina with her husband, Kevin, and two daughters, Eden and Shiloh as they work with teenage girls in foster care. While she is known to her community as the playdate planner always up for a social gathering, she is also vulnerable when it comes to her struggles. She writes for Waiting in Hope Infertility, Her View from Home, and Shaunti Feldhahn. She has been the host of the Book Therapy podcast since 2022 and can be found online at kimpatton.com. She is the author of Nothing Wasted: Struggling Well through Difficult Seasons.