Katiaesque

My dear friends! I hope 2023 treated you well! Here is my year in flashes, and in no particular order. What is your intention for this coming section of the calendar? I would LOVE to know. Mine is to live in the present moment, and as I keep showing up, to CREATE, and to do…

This month I am celebrating one year in this beautiful state of cool waters and cool people, magnificent mountains and drizzle-soaked skies. It truly has been a year of blessing on blesssing on blessing, and counting. To celebrate our Washington anniversary we (ironically) got away for the weekend to the neighboring British Columbia, Canada. It’s…

We celebrated the end of summer this long weekend by visiting a beautiful beach nearby, off of manmade Jetty Island. I also celebrated by getting some MUCH NEEDED rest, and completing the revision of a woman-made YA horror novel called Monsters Can’t Love. In this dark and twisted Golem retelling (with a few other morbid…

This month my life is a nuts and bananas sundae. It’s out to lunch, unzipped, unglued, and fruity. Yes, this occasion calls for a nice metaphor mix! I am still writing every morning, though the pace of the first draft slowed down, waaay down, because of which I started revising my other project, too! To…

I didn’t go anywhere, except Boston, briefly, to see my parents and get sick there, lol. Didn’t go anywhere, but didn’t need to, because home was everything. And I don’t mean this metaphor literally (hehe). Friends, I love Washington. So, so much. But it’s more than that. I am loving the home that I have…

Auntie Motya is my inner critic, and she is always scared to jinx things. So, naturally, it’s time for an update 🙂 I finished the outline of my next book a few days ago. Took a weekend off — gasp! — but so needed. I had to celebrate the summer properly, welcoming it with naps…

I can’t believe we’re already here, last day of April. Spring has come to Washington State: hello warm breeze, hello, sunshine, and hey there, dandelions outside my window! I can’t believe we’ve spent six months here, among the mountains, being rained on. I still can’t believe we’re here some days. And now, here are the…

It was an intense last couple of weeks, friends. Just lots of mental and spiritual stretching, as I keep learning how to get out of my own way and just enjoy all the blessings, while continuing the work — the wonderful work of being a writer and a human. About two weeks ago, I suffered…