Making a beautiful life without guarantees.
I’m interested in what happens when the life
we thought we were going to have doesn’t quite work out.
ordinary magic
Essays, stories, and conversations about the messy middle of being alive.
The body
rest.
illness. aging.
disability.
pleasure. mortality.
The Unlearning
religion. family. old stories. the things we inherited and eventually choose to question.
The making
bread. books. creativity. making something with your own two hands, or the help of technology.
The In-Between
The strange territory between what we expected, what happened and what comes next.
From the Journal
Two Years NED
On surviving, fear, sourdough, and the strange mathematics of being alive.
What the Bread Knows
Water. Flour. Salt. Time and the things we learn when we have to return to the kitchen slowly
The Life I Didn’t Plan
On discovering that the life you were trying to get back to might not actually be the life you want anymore.
THE PODCAST
Conversations about living a life
when you don’t get guarantees
Hello, I’m Kat.
I didn’t set out to build a philosophy around the strange, ordinary business of being alive.
Life had other plans.
Grace & Magic is where I write about what I’ve learned in the in-between.
Come meet me →
come, sit awhile
Essays, podcast episodes, and small observations about making a life in the messy middle
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