Personal – Page 5 – Kathryn Presner

Lessons Learned from a Lost Cat

As a longtime indoor-cat mom, my worst fear is one of my cats escaping outside. It’s something I’ve always been paranoid about – my front vestibule is called “the kitty…

A Liberated Lady

You’re 17. You’re supremely insecure about yourself, yet somehow preternaturally confident about the life you’ve only begun to experience. You ask your close (male) pal’s best friend to go with…

Sabbatical, Part I

The last month has been an unusual time. I’m on sabbatical from my job at Automattic, an amazing benefit offered once you’ve worked there for at least five years. The…

Letters

When was the last time you wrote someone a letter, by hand, using pen and paper? I’ve recently been going through some old documents, and unearthed two specimens I had…

Armour

I tend to walk through the city with my guard up. Wearing my city armour. When people approach, I make an instantaneous assessment – what do they want? Money? A…

Meeting Anthony Bourdain

It took me a couple of weeks after the sad news of Anthony Bourdain’s death to remember that I’d met him once. After it hit me, the details started coming…

K. Presner

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