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The Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad Day
I am thinking about the day after we arrived in Miami almost three years ago. Relocation. Part of being in a new place is not knowing where you are. Another part of being in a new place, is when you are staying in a suburban La Quinta nea...
read moreThe Tipsy Socialite
I sat at the bar and started to check Facebook when a fashionable middle-age man sitting by himself started a conversation with me. A few minutes later, an immediately fashionable middle-age woman, a tipsy socialite, returned from the restroom and j...
read moreOn Defining Gender: A Perspective From An XO
As a woman living with Turner syndrome, I know gender is a particularly complex, fluid, and amazing thing. Chromosomally speaking, typical females are XX. I am XO. My genetic make-up is a phenotypic wild card. Most XO's are miscarried before birth...
read moreKentucky Derby mini-Marathon 2018
The last time I wrote about running was when I failed to meet one of my 2017 goals - the goal of running 1000 miles. (I have completed 155 miles in 2018, so far.) When I wrote about that, I had completing my 10th half marathon (13.1 miles) during the...
read moreAbout Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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