Life is Long | Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Sometimes Things Just Die, on Tragedies Large and Small

by Katie | May 9, 2022 | Disability, Life is Long, Parenting

:: In 24 hours, the truth was before us, a truth that had probably been there all along. Sometimes things just die.

Fear of Dying, Fear of Living

by Katie | Mar 16, 2022 | Disability, Life is Long, Parenting

:: Today, when this fear of death hit me, I realized that I’ve been carrying these thoughts around in the back of my mind for so long that I can’t remember when they started. Perhaps two years of pandemic, of living under a shroud of death, has created this pall.

Burnout, Agency, and some reasons why we feel crappy

by Katie | Jan 25, 2022 | Disability, Life is Long

:: The best jobs give their workers agency, and those workers tend to be happy They get to be creative, and come up with neat ideas, and execute those ideas. Whereas jobs where workers do not have agency tend to have workers who burn out.

On Anxiety, On Joy

by Katie | Jan 23, 2022 | Life is Long, Parenting, Travel, Writing and Publishing

:: We don’t get many opportunities to seize pure joy. And this was the purest.

But How Did You Get Here?: From Writer to Lawyer to Professor and Back Again

by Katie | Apr 26, 2019 | Freelance Academic, Life is Long, My Books, Writing and Publishing

:: I spend a lot of time mentoring young or new writers and freelancers, and they all ask me a version of the same question: How did you get here? My path is long. My feelings are strong. And so I decided to write this story.