Kati
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | lazing about |
| Location | Pacific Northwest, United States |
| Introduction | Kati is my name, asking questions is my game! My motto: "Confusion is the mother of Wisdom." My cv: From foreign student in Kalamazoo (from Belgium via Hungary, Switzerland,France) to marrying young (to a Latvian via the UK) and disregarding my mother's frantic cables: "Can't you just live with him?" My mom was way ahead of her time and time proved that she knew best, but my two kids and my two grandkids are awesome, and so is my new partner of the last 30 years. From sales clerk (at Steuben no less!) to fry cook, to cultural-social anthropologist/translator/teacher to writing blogs in the Northwest woods.... Like other Flysters I came to The Fly Magazine and thus also started the blog that at first went with it through reading the amazing posts following "Dear Prudence" on Slate. Yes, gossip is fascinating. It's actually the cornerstone of anthropology (even bones are gossips!), not to mention it helps keep abreast with our species' deepest concerns (Hey you! Stop laughing already!) This blog is addressed and dedicated to all those who haven't stopped saying "why?" as they grew up, and even now refuse to take "Because!" for an answer |
| Favorite Movies | Evergreen, The Children of Men, and so many others |
| Favorite Music | Good grief I'm getting old... don't dare say it! |
| Favorite Books | Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World (about torture and the infliction and the suffering of pain), Lately: Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna, Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine, Siddharta Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People, Melanie Thernstrom, The Pain Chronicles (about chronic pain --ouch!) In the past among others, anything by Pierre Bourdieu. Also nuts about C.S. Peirce... After decades of not reading fiction now I'm catching up as well as have become a mystery novels addict. Last mystery book (well much more than mystery!) I read: Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind. |
What would you wear for camouflage if you were hiding in a gingerbread house?
I'd eat that whole house pronto.... and grow very very big and there will no more need to hide!