Hi, My Name is Kate…

  I’m going through benzo withdrawal. (For those of you lucky enough not to know, benzos are benzodiazepines, anti-anxiety drugs such as Xanax and Klonipin.) How I got to this point is a rambling story

RADICAL SOLACE

  There’s a lot to hate about the human condition. Ask someone who went through the holocaust; ask someone in a country that has been colonized and exploited; ask an African American who lived during

STRESS

    My cat is pulling out her own hair. I find it in clumps and see the results on her balding backside and tail. It’s stressing me out. In fact, she and I are

Wake Up and Smell the Dead Chicken

My 60th year on planet Earth sucked. Or to put a gentler spin on it, it was challenging. I’m glad it’s over. I’m glad I’m 61 now and am done with that year. The main

GENITALS AND LOST FAITH

    Zen Buddhism. It has been a constant source of strength for me since I was 19 and so frazzled by anxiety that I didn’t think I would survive my own mind. Alan Watts,

Solitude

Think of the stereotype of people who are alone– the depressed woman in raggedy house slippers, t.v. on, some cats sprinkled around the room. Or the teenager who’s too fat or too skinny or too