In Defense of Melancholy – by Kate Ingram
Soul Matters – November 2022
It is early October as I write, and the weather is sublime. The light is low and the leaves just beginning to change. I love autumn, yet this beautiful season always […]
Endings, Middles, & Beginnings – by Kate Ingram
Soul Matters – October 2022
I’ve been sharing a lot recently about some personal transitions I’m experiencing, but I’m keenly aware that we are all going through major cultural, political, economic and social transitions, writ large. […]
Notes from the Nest – by Kate Ingram
Soul Matters – September 2022
This summer has been a particularly fecund one for birds in my world. We’ve been surrounded by nests of blue jays, robins, and spotted towhees (which I call grackles—I can’t tell […]
The Path Ahead – by Kate Ingram
Soul Matters – June 2022
As I write this, Mother’s Day is here, and as you are reading this, my son, Aidan, will be a newly-minted, high school graduate, tentatively stepping into the beginning practicum of […]
Back to Basics: Lessons from a Little House on the Prairie – By Kate Ingram
Soul Matters – May 2022
As a young girl I loved the Little House book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, which chronicled her life growing up in the 1860s. I read the books innumerable times and […]
Hell in a Handbasket: A Traveler’s Guide to Living in Uncertain Times – by Kate Ingram
Soul Matters – April 2022 – Online-only longer version
Just as spring arrives, just as the pandemic recedes and life begins to look a bit brighter, Vladimir Putin.
Seriously? Two insane years of Covid, massive political and social […]
The Story of Your Life – by Kate Ingram
Soul Matters – March 2022
AN OBJECTIFIED ME.
I need that myself
to help the other separate the viewer
and the viewed
which subjectivity’s mirror
fuses;
someone
for a short time
to wear my problem so that unburdened
I
may
save
my soul.*
I love stories. I love […]
Feeling Meh? You’re Not Alone – by Kate Ingram
Soul Matters – February 2022
Well, congratulations. We made it into another new year. And regardless of how you may be feeling about this fact, I think we should all be feeling darned good about ourselves […]
Home for the Holidays: A Survival Guide – by Kate Ingram
Soul Matters – November 2021
The holidays often evoke more stress than gratitude, and this year promises to be a bit “extra” with Covid fears and vaccine wars added to the usual familial fracas. I hope […]
The Other Virus – by Kate Ingram
Soul Matters – October 2021
Eighteen months ago, I began this column by saying, “Are you as tired of hearing and reading about this horrid virus as I am?”
Little did I imagine.
Here it is, another fall […]