“People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”
― Taylor Swift

hello, my name is kat.

i’m a disabled writer with a passion for writing about the magic and mystery hidden in plain sight, the alchemy of luck in our lives, and how the lens we choose to view things through is sometimes more information than the reality we are facing.

i’m a triple Scorpio with a pieces moon and a hefty dose of skepticism. i grew up with a narcissistic mother and then spent too many years married to two different versions of her toxicity. i am disabled, living with me/cfs and pots.

i love the smell and sound of rain, yet come from the desert. did you know there are like millions of shades of green?!? grace and magic was started over a decade over in my quest for finding the magic in the mundane and the grace that kindness and compassion offer. i have a rare, aggressive, terrifying cancer that’s in remission and scares the shit out of me. i was lucky it was found early.

i think growing old is a privilege

love

I’M PASSIONATE ABOUT love

I really do believe it’s the answer…

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence,
it is self-preservation.”
― Audre Lorde

. . .

“I just do the best I can to face what life brings.
That’s the secret, you know.
That’s the way you change your fate.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

. . .

“You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even a decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on.
Stay.
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

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chance I’m talking
to my cat

11

Years since
grace & magic
was born.
MY EXPERIENCE
  • BA in Creative non-fiction & Psychology, with an emphasis on Mindfulness and Radical Acceptance
  • Published in The Mighty, Age of Awareness, Invisible Illness, Real Life Resilience, and The Shortform
  • Creator of Releasing Relationships: A workbook for moving on
  • grace & magic
    a space to explore the questions that keep
    me up at night…about curiosity, resilience,
    and why some people are just plain lucky.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope

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