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Freedom. The freedom from our parents: mine – from my parents, my son’s – from his. So we all live in different places. I still ask myself what I need more—to be with the man I love or with… read more September 7, 2024 Nightingale’s Lies, Michelin Mornings and Flawless Moscow Over a fancy breakfast, there’s an encounter with celebrity-turned-propagandist. Once, he scolded Bernays’ manipulation tactics; now, he deploys them, velvet words masking war. From Moscow secret bars to the red glow of the Kremlin, sickly perfection and impeccable beauty becomes oppressive, and truth slips through polished rhetoric. What is the… read more September 7, 2024 All My Rooms Royal bedrooms don't save you from loneliness if you're not allowed to scream, kiss, or laugh outside the etiquette. When you're raised as a princess, everything is handed to you — but you live by someone else's rules. To descend into the ordinary, you end up sleeping on a mattress… read more September 1, 2024 Flight Vancouver – Moscow Delayed flights, vanished luggage, lost passport, airport meltdown, French-Canadian bureaucracy, grief, stubborn optimism, and a ‘little black dress’. Real-time chronicling of a chaotic route via Toronto, Montreal and Dubai with Emirates as the unexpected hero and Air Canada as the ultimate mess-up.I still ask myself what I need more—to be… read more July 23, 2024 Brenda the Lesbian Blocks Her Loved Ones Disguised behind sunglasses and a Tilley hat, she lives as “Lesbian Brenda” – hiding from coworkers, motherhood, and expired documents. Her children prepare to fly alone to Moscow. One never to come back to Canada. She’s blocked her mother and her ex. It feels like living in a The Academy… read more April 2, 2024 The Bed Frame Story A marketplace purchase spirals into a surreal encounter with three strange men, a house of fake Klimt paintings and gaudy antiques and a reincarnation of David Bowie if he was 70. The real horror? Realizing why we ignore danger: fear of rudeness outweighs survival instinct. J just laughs and fixes… read more March 31, 2024 Easter Hugs Immigrant Longing: When a Stranger’s Mother Feels Like Home. J brings his spectacular mother to Starbucks, a desperate hug blurs borders between "here" and "home”. read more March 1, 2024 Supervising at Starbucks At Starbucks, the supervisor is part floor general, part therapist, part janitor. They orchestrate workflow, assign roles, motivate the team and occasionally drown in milk. It can be a real-time battlefield delegation. Leadership here isn’t about barking orders – it’s about laughing through the chaos and making sure everyone survives… read more March 23, 2022 Recycling Meditation, & My Backyard Bear Reflective story about finding unexpected joy in taking out the trash, complete with backyard bears, folding boxes at Starbucks, and the quiet pride of adulthood. read morehttps://kattystories.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_4265-1-scaled-e1755772451789.jpg16472120