During the last year and a half, several people close to me have died. My friend Sam died in motorcycle accident. My Uncle Ron died from complications from stroke. My friend Patty died from ALS. And last week, my friend and former student, Libby, the daughter of one of my closest friends, Kay and Andy…Continue reading On Grief and Love
Category: Katrina’s Writing
Thoughts About Writing Warm-Ups: GAHHH!
Part of the problem about me getting going with writing is that I have this need to talk about the process just to “warm up.” I mean, writing warm-ups is generally encouraged anyway, but I also feel this inner pull to explain my characters and ideas and settings and TALK about my writing to my…Continue reading Thoughts About Writing Warm-Ups: GAHHH!
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Sam’s T-shirts
(This story is unedited and includes notes to myself for future changes.) At Sam’s Memorial Service, his friends took all his old T-shirts and laid them out over the edges of the table. There were old school soccer T-shirts, Jerseys from different national soccer teams, The Haircuts of Mao Ze Tzung, camoflauge T-shirts worn so…Continue reading Sam’s T-shirts
Hiawassee Warm-ups
Hiawassee Writing Weekend 2017 I haven’t been alone in about 20 years, but I am now. It is terrifying. I am 39 years old and I’ve gotten away from my husband and three kids so that I can expunge from my brain years of ideas for fiction that have been building up. I took my…Continue reading Hiawassee Warm-ups
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