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Tag: Washingtonian
The Unspeakable Gift
The minister’s sermon was about love. I hadn’t yet packed my bag for the hospital, and I was scaredand a bit hung over from the mojitos I’d consumed the night before. Churchhas always been a hopeful and welcoming place for me, and that morni...
read moreThe Uses of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)Someone I loved once gave mea box full of darkness.It took me years to understandthat this, too, was a gift.Mary Oliver "The Unspeakable Gift," my essay in the Washingtonian Magazine...
read moreAbout Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.