by Katie | Mar 8, 2017 | Feminism, Freelance Academic, Life is Long, Social Justice
:: Women know how precious my time is. Men demand things of me. I woke up on International Women’s Day to this: yet another demand (via email) by a man I do not know for free labor by me for his personal benefit. In this case, the man wanted free career...
by Katie | Jan 15, 2017 | Freelance Academic, Life is Long, Racial Justice, Social Justice
:: You don’t measure human work in widgets. You can’t. I woke up this Sunday morning worried about money—making enough of it, selling enough stories to make enough of it, saving enough of it for my kids’ school and for retirement and for emergencies,...
by Katie | Dec 20, 2016 | Creative Writing, Hollywood Lights Series, Life is Long
:: When my publisher told me they wanted me to write a love story set around the winter holidays, and “Oh, it needs a happy ending”—I felt like I was standing barefoot and under-supplied at the bottom of a very tall, very rocky mountain that I had to climb if I ever...
by Katie | Nov 14, 2016 | Life is Long, Racial Justice, Social Justice
:: No one should be surprised that the U.S. elected a racist, sexist, ableist, tax-evading, draft-dodging, racist, Islamophobic, sexist president. I’ve kept quiet on the election for about a week, mostly to give those who are far more eloquent than I am a chance...
by Katie | Sep 14, 2016 | Creative Writing, Life is Long
:: For the past few weeks, I’ve had writing angst. Most writers get it. If you’ve had it, you know what I mean. Symptoms include lack of desire to write; feelings of meaninglessness, pointlessness, and, you know, angst; even feelings of anger toward your...
by Katie | Aug 7, 2016 | Creative Writing, Freelance Academic, Life is Long
:: Writing is both easy and hard. For some people, one of my children, for instance, writing can be very, very hard. One of my children has a learning disability that makes forming words and reading them difficult. For me, forming words has never been hard, even...
