I'm alive! Not to worry, after a year (ish) of silence, I have returned from eastern Europe. What is that, you say? Eastern Europe! How did I get to eastern Europe? (Latvia, specifically, dear people. Latvia is important). Good question. We'll get to that.
I owe everyone an explanation, that's it, plain and simple: I spent so much energy and tried to be such a perfectionist with the IRS piece that I went and burned my silly self out. After all that research in what, three days? Blogging was the last item on my list of things to do. And then busy-ness happens, as busy-ness does, and among all the marvelous events that constitute Life I found numerous occasions to keep disregarding my poor, unloved blog.
Thankfully the opportunity to start up again presented itself in the form of a winter study-abroad in Latvia (eastern Europe, Baltic states, any of this ringing a bell? Here: you're welcome, now go educate yourself), and it occurred to me that I should eventually tell people Where Kathryn Has Been and keep up with Where Kathryn Will Be In The Continuing Future.
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| Riga is the capital city of Latvia, and this is a view from the St. Peter's Church in Riga. Look at the ice on that river! |
In any event, I have this habit of going off and talking with strangers, and becoming wonderful friends with said strangers in an instant, and I put this habit to good use while in Latvia. I decided to share the conversations I had with people on the street and elsewhere on this blog in the form of pages; as I produce them I will post them here. Bear with me, please - I want to do each of my literary subjects justice. The people I write about are those who most strongly impacted me while I was there, and so you will hear a wide range of stories.
Often those stories will have elements of gravity mixed with elements of simple humorous humanity, but I hope you will enjoy what you find here. And you should be able to deduce, more or less, What Kathryn Thought as she shared a small part of each person's life.
I didn't know you before you left... but welcome back to the United States. I pray that you will study hard and do well this semester.
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