No Teleprompter, No Mercy

This is the story of a pinteresting discovery gone bad. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011-2013 Kate Welshofer

  In Memory of Harry L. Welshofer October 19, 1927 – February 25, 2010       *Please consider a donation to The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer research.  Research is the only way we can beat this disease.  Thank you. Click here to learn more about the cause. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012-2013 Kate Welshofer

“Do you have a minute?” When it comes to conversation, I tend to get a little leery of whatever might be hanging on the other end of a question like that.  It’s not as, let’s say, intense as “we have to talk,” but it’s in the same neighborhood. Rather than just casual chit-chat, these words convey a certain sense of “prepare yourself.”  [...]

In 2011, when my father became ill with what we would later learn was pancreatic cancer, I started writing a story. You can find it by clicking here. I never finished it and I have thought about that many times. I hear lines in my head and fail to write them down. It’s all there, [...]

  I’ve always struggled with my feelings when it comes to people whose birthdays fall near holidays.  It can’t be easy to be upstaged by a jolly old elf or an oversized, chocolate egg-peddling rabbit.  Why should they be second banana to one of those guys when the rest of us get an entire day all to [...]

I think we can probably all agree that dating is complicated.  Meeting people in general is tricky.  It can be exhilarating but it can quickly turn terrifying and ultimately depressing. But it doesn’t stop anyone from trying including a guy who recently tried breaking the ice by apologizing for “that weird encounter earlier,” an encounter [...]