Hi there! My name is Kate J. Reed. Kate Reed, really, but there are just so many of us with the name I needed to throw my middle initial in so that the throngs of people googling me could find me easier.
I started this blog as a place to write regularly to a real—albeit small--audience. I am not a believer in writing for myself as an audience. On the rare occasion that I do write "to myself," I find that writing is really, really terrible. I have no standards for myself. Whenever I read published personal journals, I think, you must have planned on someone reading this. But maybe other people deem their future selves more critical of an audience than I do myself. When deciding what to write about here, I knew it would have to do with Spokane community. I grew up in Spokane. I moved away for a bit, sure as hell I'd never end up here. But here I am and here I will probably stay. Spokane in its current iteration is different than the city of my childhood. For one, there is Huntington Park and Sante (a French chef, what?!). And a lot of it is the same, but I see it with fresh eyes now that I choose to be here. Bowl and Pitcher, for instance, and the Garland District. So, the anchor of this blog is Spokane and community. Although the topics I write about are plenty, I think, in some way, everything is related to my complex relationship with this place and its people and the community I have here. I'm still figuring out what kind of space this is, what kind of blog. At times it flirts with being a food blog, at other times a parenting blog. Due to time constraints, it is far from the ultimate Spokane guide, as I originally imagined it to be. But maybe it's migrating that way. Maybe you know a fun Spokane thing I should do and write about and you want to email me about it. Until then, I'll keep writing what comes to mind, whatever it may be. Thanks for reading! Read some work here: |
"Post-Apocalyntic Power Couple" in The Spokesman Review
"Fling" in The Literati Quarterly "When Sarah Goes Missing" in The Literati Quarterly "The Girls" in Pie & Whiskey III "The Goodwill Man" In Copper Nickle "My Boss's Dead Son's Car" in Trestle Creek "The Hummingbird Feeders" in Almost5 Quarterly |