My Letter to Fear
Based on interviews with women, these essays about life (and all of its funny, sad and ridiculous aspects) were published in 2014.
New Endeavor
Part of the new life/get a life year plan involved a little bit of travel and a lot of exploration. To go along with that plan, I’ve started a second blog that will focus on those travel plans, sights and sounds. If you are curious, this is where it will be: http://openroadahead.wordpress.com/ Never fear, I
Destination: Anywhere
Blue skies, The Commitments on the radio and open road in front of me… Destination: AnywhereEast or West, I don’t care
And I Got Here How?
I’m in a bar in a hotel in San Diego. I’d like to be able to tell you why I’m here, but that part isn’t quite so clear to me. It started innocently enough, as these things often do. I was having lunch with Pen, and we were having a discussion about passion. I’m reading
Rain Delay
On a normal day from my past life, I would be very unhappy right about now. It is raining in Los Angeles—this never bodes well. People can’t drive in it. I don’t park close to my apartment, and I really have lost my tolerance for being out in it. If this had happened a year
To Done
I’m not going to lie. When I took the year off, I had a lot of vague notions about how the year would go. Clearly, twenty minutes after I quit, I would be offered my own television series, movie franchise or multi-book publishing deal. A month later, I was supposed to be voted most powerful
A True Story
Earlier today a friend said, “Oh dating guru, Kate, could you please pass on a tiny nugget of your relationship wisdom?” Or, you know, something really close to that. Because I’m a benevolent soul with vast (read: singular) experience in the matters of the heart, I will now give you one of my top ten
Oh You Kidder
I’ve always told my friends that the one thing I’d most want to do with David Duchovny is discuss Russian literature (and no, I don’t mean that euphemistically). I understand that this makes me socially freakish, but a good conversation is far more intriguing to me than nearly anything (save winning the lottery, which I
Something You Don’t Know
Something you don’t know about me and would never guess… When I was in first grade, I got an S on my report card (S=Satisfactory). I missed out on the S+. Why? The teacher said that while I was bright, I had a tendency to socialize too much with my neighbors in class. Apparently, I’ve
Outside Myself
(now with 100% more pictures) Seeing your life through someone else’s eyes can be illuminating or depressing. When I look at the changes in my life over the last several years critically (because when aren’t I critical), I see someone who went from employed, living in a 3-bedroom house with the husband presumptive to unemployed,
Gift Ideas
As we get closer to major gift giving holidays like Labor Day and Columbus Day, you may be stumped as to what to get me as a gift. Allow me to point you in the right direction: http://shop.ebay.com/ibg_inc/m.html