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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
7 min read


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
10 min read


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
8 min read


The Delight of Spring Yard Eats
Three of my favorite seasonal foraged finds and recipes.
Katie Calautti
2 min read


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
2 min read


My Life with the No-Longer Living
Here's what it's like to be spirit-sensitive.
Katie Calautti
5 min read


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
8 min read


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
13 min read


My 10 Favorite Spooky Season Movies
Really good scary movies manage to simultaneously be visually appealing, narratively intriguing, and psychologically fulfilling.
Katie Calautti
5 min read


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 read


Building a Bug Collection
My first attempt at pinning and displaying insects.
Katie Calautti
3 min read


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
3 min read


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
2 min read


The Adventures of an Amateur Forager
In my former Brooklyn backyard: concrete, a broken plastic chair, garbage tumbleweeds...
Katie Calautti
4 min read


Katie in the Cottage
I’ve lived in this little 1847-era cottage for a year now, and I still...
Katie Calautti
1 min read
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