The Kat Shapes Young Minds

As you may have guessed from the wholly stupid title, I’m having the worst trouble trying to write this blog entry. I want desperately to recap my Young Writers seminar from Tuesday, but the more I try to write about writers and writing the more I sound like somebody who would be kicked off the [...]

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Dear Cute 5 Year Olds & Sullen 13 Year Olds

For the last 8 years I really have enjoyed sitting in front of an open door waiting to give you free candy. No, really I have. I’ve also enjoyed having the doorbell ring while my dogs bark like mad. And I’ve especially enjoyed having a few of you come long after the official ToT time [...]

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Kat’s Kobayashi Maru

Please help me.  Please… PLEASE! Tomorrow I’m doing something I’m very excited about.  I’m helping in group sessions at a young writers’ conference for gifted middle school students.  (The fact that I’m helping them may make some of them rethink just how “gifted” they are.  Putting up with me is not necessarily a GIFT in [...]

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If You’ve Sent Me An Email

If you’ve sent me an email which bullies or threatens me… Guess what? It’ll end up posted on the front page of this blog. Because I’ve had more than enough of people acting all sweetness and light and then sending nasty death threats to my inbox behind the scenes. UPDATE: Because I didn’t make this [...]

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Yes! This Will Be Fun!

Ivy tagged me for a meme. Seeing as how I’m awake at 1:00am even though I shouldn’t be, I figure a nice, rambly sort of post about my baggage would be a lot of fun. For one of us. The rules, as I understand them, are that I’m to write about three things I should [...]

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Allow Me To Repeat Myself

I said it over at MCB and I’ll say it again over here. Those of you, like William, who would like us to keep our religion out of politics have little business inserting your politics into our religion. I get that it’s a really popular game right now to say things like “Yah! What would [...]

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How Bad Would I Be

My mother in law sent us a bunch of Bibles to give to the Next Door women’s halfway house. Apparently the Next Door is inundated with Bibles, though, and they don’t want ours. Would it be just awful for me to hand out Bibles with the candy when kids come trick or treating? I mean, [...]

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You’d Think I Was Four

I have to do something today that I do NOT want to do.  It’s something that I’ve been dreading so much that I’ve put off doing it for more than 10 years–even though I knew it was a problem which should be dealt with. I’d like to applaud myself for doing it, but I can’t. [...]

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Wherein I Explain Facts To Entertainment Weekly

This week’s EW has Carrie Underwood on the cover. As long as there’s not a sound chip inside the magazine singing “Jesus, Take The Wheel” I’ve no opinion on that article. I do, however, take issue with their lead movie review for Rendition. In doing so I’m going to sing a song I’ve sung before, [...]

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The Whole Gay Dumbledore Thing

If you are just now figuring out that a man who wore a purple suit, was unmarried for the entirety of his long life, acted rather flamboyantly and was only described as having an intimately close relationship with a young man might be gay… Okay.

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