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The Writing Life

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 That Time the Black Bear Climbed into My Car
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By Katey
In The Writing Life
Posted May 29, 2025

That Time the Black Bear Climbed into My Car

Well, a black-bear cub opened the back passenger door of my car this month and climbed in. From the paw prints and black hairs on the headliner, I can tell it also climbed up front and even [...]

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 After the Flood Came the Fire
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By Katey
In The Writing Life
Posted May 1, 2025

After the Flood Came the Fire

The forest is coming to life again, even against the backdrop of Helene’s damage, and I need to tell you what that means for those of us still here. Why? Because our climate disaster is yours, [...]

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 Affirming our Humanity
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By Katey
In The Writing Life
Posted March 29, 2025

Affirming our Humanity

Over the past month, despite much of the surrounding national forest still being closed, we’ve braved some of the hiking trails. Hiking has felt very healing, if not also tender. Just a hundred [...]

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 I Can Hear Her Breathing
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By Katey
In The Writing Life
Posted February 20, 2025

I Can Hear Her Breathing

We continue to feel very protective of our family time, in our post-Helene, reunited lives. Volunteering happens weekly, at relief centers or river and creek cleanups. Below, you’ll see my son [...]

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 That Brief, Almost Utopian Moment
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By Katey
In The Writing Life
Posted January 23, 2025

That Brief, Almost Utopian Moment

My family has been reunited – under the same roof – for six weeks. Every day, dump trucks come and go along Highway 80 and our side road, Lower Browns Creek Road, removing piles of ruined items [...]

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 Remember What You Love, and What Loves You
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By Katey
In The Writing Life
Posted November 21, 2024

Remember What You Love, and What Loves You

We are so much more than the headlines and heretics that make the news. If the past few months have taught me anything, it’s exactly that. If you’re grasping for good news, validation, a [...]

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 A Pistol, $60 Cash, and a Diamond Ring
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By Katey
In The Writing Life
Posted October 24, 2024

A Pistol, $60 Cash, and a Diamond Ring

It’s hard to know where to start an update when my community is still knee-deep in mud, death, and destruction. But right alongside that, many of us are also heart-deep in compassion, [...]

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 So Much to Celebrate
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By Katey
In The Writing Life
Posted September 12, 2024

So Much to Celebrate

I am writing to you from a place of astonishment and gratitude. This summer, I experienced major physical and physiological wins in my recovery from long covid. Only nine months ago, I ate my [...]

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 Unbound and Resting
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By Katey
In The Writing Life
Posted July 9, 2024

Unbound and Resting

It took more hours, long days, and lack of sleep than I want to admit … but I am finally starting my slow-down period as of this blogpost. And once I’m on the other side of the WRITEABILITY Board [...]

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 Singing and Crying in the Same Breath
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By Katey
In The Writing Life
Posted May 30, 2024

Singing and Crying in the Same Breath

It’s full blown spring here in Appalachia and the planet feels so abundant, so lush, I could almost forget that so much of it is also dying. Even writing that sentence, a twinge of sensation [...]

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