Category: People

  • Letters Home

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    Half the time, it feels like sending signals out into space. But we’ve learned so much of the universe that way, haven’t we?

  • Boundaries

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    Our office intern asked me a strange question this morning: “Hey Kate, when you don’t like a person, is it obvious?”

  • Check your privilege

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    This has been sitting in my Google Drive since 2018. I rediscovered it a couple of weeks ago and figured I might as well find some closure for it. So. Just in time for Father’s Day, too. You know, two decades ago, this day would have meant several hours hunched over a chessboard at home.…

  • Relationships as work

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    Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the spaces that people occupy in each other’s lives. Relationships are hard work. This is true in that the most enduring ties are built on daily decisions to maintain them. The metaphor shouldn’t stretch to the point of relationships being toil, the work punishing and desperate, undertaken in…