Before the Rough Draft
Katie MitchellMidlife reflections about motherhood, aging, and the intersection of the personal and political. Showing you the mess before the rough draft. Digging deep and writing slow. I contain multitudes.
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Am I the only one?
broken by the machine of modern parenting
I’ve wanted to write here and had so many things to say and couldn’t because I didn’t have the time to say them. I don’t exactly have the time now either, just scribbling this unpolished note after...
And yet.
Some thoughts on abundance and a writing prompt for paid subscribers
As I write this, I’m in the last days of August, that few weeks when my CSA box contains tomatoes alongside butternut squash, one season trying to let go and the next one...
stuck in the snowglobe
and reaching out my hand for a lifeboat
I’ve lived roughly two decades of my life in this rhythm of 100 miles per hour ten months of the year punctuated by two months of stillness where I can feel my own pulse again. But this year feels di...
what the living do
No Kings Day in DC and a summer of waiting
Last Thursday I was on a plane bound for DC on a trip planned long before Trump’s birthday military parade. I was tagging along with my boyfriend (I’m 44 years old. Can we invent a better word?) a...
a third door
finally writing to you from my hamster wheel on fire
There is a dry erase calendar hanging on my kitchen wall that I take the time to update on the first of every month to see what’s ahead in our household. Alone with the calendar in front...
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