Spirit in the Song: Thoughts from a Future Stepmom
“It’s up to you to perfect the gift you’ve been given. Put your spirit into that song.” – Stevie Wonder Let’s talk about backup singers....
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ktinseattle
- Oct 8, 2021
- 6 min
Forward
When people ask why I moved to Seattle I answer truthfully, “I wanted to write poetry in coffee shops and look out at the rain.” It is an...
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ktinseattle
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
What I Won’t Miss, What I’ll Miss in Seattle
(In the spirit of Nora Ephron's What I'll Miss, What I Won't Miss) What I Won’t Miss Traffic Slow buses that take an hour to go five...
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ktinseattle
- Aug 6, 2021
- 6 min
The Red Shoes
I found my red shoes in Paris. In Paris women walked everywhere. They did it in heels and flats and colorful espadrilles. They did it...
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ktinseattle
- May 22, 2021
- 6 min
Wildflowers
"How many nights had the ocean rocked me to sleep? How many times had I lain on the ground and felt its sustenance? How many times had I...
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ktinseattle
- Jan 17, 2021
- 5 min
Hard Candy
“There was freedom, there was peace, there was, most welcome of all, a summoning together, a resting on a platform of stability.” --To...
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ktinseattle
- Dec 17, 2020
- 4 min
A Good, Great Thing
“‘In an emergency,’ the Scarecrow announced, ‘it is always a good thing to pause and reflect. Please excuse me while I pause and...
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ktinseattle
- Dec 8, 2020
- 2 min
I Traveled the Americas with 5 Canned Cocktails from Cutwater Spirits
Lime Vodka Soda: I don’t drink a lot of vodka so I didn’t really know what to expect. But I did expect to go somewhere exotic, the “Isle...
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ktinseattle
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
The Rabbit Hole
“Instead of killing himself, he travelled and wrote.” -Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene It began with Bourdain’s Kitchen...
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ktinseattle
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
Slouching Towards Reality: My Summer with Joan Didion
I discovered Didion when I was putting off writing. Not putting off being a writer, but the actual doing of the thing. Instead, I...
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ktinseattle
- Oct 15, 2020
- 6 min
Ghostbusters
“People who live with fires think a great deal about what will happen ‘when’....” -Joan Didion, “Fire Season,” After Henry On October 29,...
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ktinseattle
- Oct 4, 2020
- 8 min
Harvest Moon
“Those who have long dared to dream can now stake their place on the winner's podium. This is traditionally called the Harvest Moon...
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ktinseattle
- Jul 22, 2020
- 4 min
Snow Country
"The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country." --Yasunari Kawabata This is how Snow Country begins. The first line and...
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ktinseattle
- May 15, 2020
- 8 min
36 Days, One Trip to the Grocery Store
“There stands a hulk of a refrigerator with enough space to store a winter’s worth of food. I lean against the shiny door, glance away...
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ktinseattle
- Apr 28, 2020
- 5 min
The Middle of the Story
The other night I watched Monkey Business, the story of the creators of Curious George. You know part of the story: the curious,...
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ktinseattle
- Mar 5, 2020
- 7 min
Permission Granted
What was it really like to spend a week in Fiji with Elizabeth Gilbert? Was it really that easy to hang out with her? Well, we didn’t...
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ktinseattle
- Feb 28, 2020
- 6 min
Easy Fiji
I went to a women’s retreat in Fiji because I wanted to spend a week on a tiny island with Elizabeth Gilbert. I knew that even if we...
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ktinseattle
- Feb 7, 2020
- 5 min
The Island of Women
“I could dive straight down now, even if I still couldn’t go that far. If I took several shallow dives, then I could risk a deeper one.”...
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ktinseattle
- Jan 31, 2020
- 8 min
Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra Ruined Me for Love, Beautifully
We learn about love from the music we hear as a child. Some of it’s our choosing, like my well-loved cassette of Madonna’s Immaculate...
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ktinseattle
- Dec 17, 2019
- 4 min
They Don’t Make a Card for That
The holiday cards are coming in. Rounded edges. Matte finish. “Merry Happy Jolly.” Equal pictures of each kid, and maybe one picture of...
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