Blogiversary
Yesterday got my four year anniversary notification from WordPress.com. Still copying and pasting posts into Scrivener for eventual publication as a book. Not all posts will make the cut. Plan to begin with [...]
Yesterday got my four year anniversary notification from WordPress.com. Still copying and pasting posts into Scrivener for eventual publication as a book. Not all posts will make the cut. Plan to begin with [...]
Organizing old posts by month written. Painstakingly slow, but have to start somewhere. Right now I'm writing in WordPress online. I write using whatever is handy -- WordPress, Word, Google Docs, [...]
October 2015, I last modified the import of my blog into Scrivener thinking I'd massage my writing into a book. The next month, my mother had a stroke. Never got back to the [...]
Poem recalling suicide of extended family member and my own suicidality at 18
Brandan, Jamie and Kate in Dhahran. Kate, always the performer. In the early 60s on a pleasant August morning in San Francisco, Kate entered this world as the first daughter of [...]
Please support me as I raise money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). NAMI Orange County has been instrumental in my mental health recovery. Help Me Support NAMI NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer [...]
Motherhood transformed me. My identity changed. Now it changes again. I have constantly reinvented myself over my lifetime. As a pre-med biochemistry major at UCLA, I was miserable and suicidal. Then I studied part-time [...]
Her true and legal name is Kitt Kathleen O’Malley. She loves her name and is grateful her parents came up with it -- a great stage name if there ever was one. Her [...]