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Home – Purely Hoping

Welcome! I am Katherine Nadene, writer and editor for Purely Hoping Publishing LLC. You can find my poetry collection, To the Moon & the World’s Goodbye, here (affiliate link).

 

 

Recent Blog Posts:

Surprise, I Wrote a Book!

To celebrate Andrew and my fifth wedding anniversary (I know, it’s wild it’s been so long!), I published my first book! It’s a collection of love poems I’ve written over the past six years of our relationship. The ebook is available on Amazon...

My (Current) Favorite Room at Netherfield

(Please note: links may be affiliate links, which means I may receive compensation to help fix up the house, but it won’t cost you any more 😊) The before and after pictures of our bedroom are possibly the ones that get me the most. Before we bought the house, this...

Netherfield’s Living Room

(Please note: links may be affiliate links, which means I may receive compensation to help fix up the house, but it won’t cost you any more 😊) The living room was the first room we redid downstairs. Because of my personality type, I knew I would need some areas that...

Netherfield’s Dining Room

(Please note: links may be affiliate links, which means I may receive compensation to help fix up the house, but it won’t cost you any more 😊) The dining room was one of the rooms we got to work right away in. Removing the dusty old carpet and the window...

Why “Purely Hoping”?

Purely Hoping isn’t just wishing for something in vain. It’s not an unrealized dream. It’s not something out of reach or unrealistic….

My Medical Blog

For those that want to stay up to date on my health.

Summer Health Update 2020

It’s fitting that as I write this update, I am currently at the beach. It is my summer update, after all. Now, don’t look at me like I am crazy and ask, “But what about the pandemic?!” My family and I are in our own beach house on a...

Spring Health Update 2020

Here I sit in my air-conditioned office, hiding from the heat of summer blazing outside these freshly painted walls. It almost seems silly to call this a “spring” update when it’s been summertime for what feels like ages. At the same time, I don’t know how it became...

Winter Health Update

It’s been a long winter, y’all. January was pretty quiet. I got a few colds but did my best to stay well for my February 3 appointment at Hershey since we were doing a repeat chest CT to see if what was in my lungs was from a viral infection or if it was...

Fall Health Update

How strange it is to think that most of December is actually fall, not winter. I feel funny calling this a Fall Health Update because…it’s now after Christmas, but I guess that’s just how it goes. October Thankfully October was a pretty quiet month,...