Stories, Students & A Life I Love

A writer · A teacher · A life well lived

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  • One of the things I had to give up when my husband died was the publishing contract that I had on my middle grade/high school fantasy novel that I had worked so hard on and was so excited to see coming to print. It was a gutting decision, but one…

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  • Exquisite Corpse

    It had been some years since I had read Poppy Z. Brite’s Exquisite Corpse. I spent any down time I had yesterday finishing it. It took…

  • Late Night Books

    I can’t remember the last time that I was so into a book that I stayed up all night reading it. I had a lot…

  • Molly Bags

    Back in the tumult of my 20’s, I remember looking at happy couples and thinking, how do those people get like that? How, in this…

  • 273

    In just 273 days, I’m going to be getting married. This sound so crazy to me. As much as I wanted to get married and…

● About Me

Hi, I’m Kate! I am the author of this blog that takes you on a journey from books to widowhood to teaching and everything in between.