What I Learned While Studying to Be a Spiritual Medium
Here's how an eight-week course transformed my relationship with the dead—and myself.
Katie Calautti
- 10 min
Your Questions About Writing, Answered
Submissions about setting aside ego and fear, finding your voice, and much more—straight from my Instagram followers.
Katie Calautti
- 8 min
Teaching Myself to Write a Novel: Part 2
In the second installment of my novel-writing series, I outline what I've learned from Act 2 to Draft 3.
Katie Calautti
- 2 min
The Delight of Spring Yard Eats
Three of my favorite seasonal foraged finds and recipes.
Katie Calautti
- 2 min
Behind My Father's Lens
For 16 years after he died, a roll of film sat undeveloped in my dad's Pentax camera. Here's what I found.
Katie Calautti
- 5 min
My Life with the No-Longer Living
Here's what it's like to be spirit-sensitive.
Katie Calautti
- 8 min
There's No Place Like Alone for the Holidays
What I've come to learn and love about spending this time of year on my own.
Katie Calautti
- 13 min
Teaching Myself to Write a Novel: Part 1
In the first installment of my novel-writing series, I outline the resources that got me started and what I've learned up to writing Act 1.
Katie Calautti
- 5 min
My 10 Favorite Spooky Season Movies
Really good scary movies manage to simultaneously be visually appealing, narratively intriguing, and psychologically fulfilling.
Katie Calautti
- 3 min
A Glimpse Behind the Grapevine Curtain
Here's what it's like to spend the day harvesting grapes at my local winery.
Katie Calautti
- 3 min
Building a Bug Collection
My first attempt at pinning and displaying insects.
Katie Calautti
- 3 min
On Persisting Through Power Outages
When the power went out the day I moved into the cottage, what I thought was an anomaly was actually...
Katie Calautti
- 2 min
My 7 Favorite Candle Brands
To know me is to know that I am the most Taurus Taurus who ever Taurused. Which basically means...
Katie Calautti
- 4 min
The Adventures of an Amateur Forager
In my former Brooklyn backyard: concrete, a broken plastic chair, garbage tumbleweeds...
Katie Calautti
- 1 min
Katie in the Cottage
I’ve lived in this little 1847-era cottage for a year now, and I still...