Author, Teacher, Screenwriter, Poet
[Below is a copy of the foreword to X&O: Short Works by me, Kate Horsley] This collection of short works comes from and is about vastly different stages in my personal and creative life. “Rat”
Remember Blanche Dubois in the play “Streetcar Named Desire”? Okay – maybe you don’t. Anyway, she says at some point, in her southern drawl, “I must rely on the kindness of strangers” – as though
Virginia Woolfe wrote an essay called “The Angel in the House,” explaining that women have to kill the angel voice inside them in order to be powerful writers. Truman Capote didn’t have any problem with
Morally weak heterosexual men have two strategies for getting laid: rape and religion. Rapists are straight-forward worthless criminals. Men who use religion to justify their control of women are delusional lunatics and/or diabolical bullshitters
About eight years ago in November, a man I valued very much as a friend and colleague stepped outside his car and shot himself on the asphalt of an emergency room parking lot. His
All kinds of crap happens. To all of us. I can’t think of an extended period of time in my life when crap didn’t happen. In the past, when I wasn’t meditating and crap happened,