Kate Washington
@washingtonkate.bsky.social
Writer, editor, swimming hole enthusiast, author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America (Beacon, 2021) and Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims (coming July 7, 2026!)
Pinned
Coming July 7, 2026: Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims. New title! New pub date! Same me in my same favorite river! (Taken at Hoyt's Crossing on the South Yuba.)
Coming July 7, 2026: Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims. New title! New pub date! Same me in my same favorite river! (Taken at Hoyt's Crossing on the South Yuba.)
August 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Coming July 7, 2026: Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims. New title! New pub date! Same me in my same favorite river! (Taken at Hoyt's Crossing on the South Yuba.)
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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bring an air horn
If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?
March 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
bring an air horn
Excited to share my conversation with @reluctantcaregiver.bsky.social today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Hidden Struggles of Caregiving and Dangers of Burnout
Podcast Episode · Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver · 02/18/2025 · 57m
podcasts.apple.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Excited to share my conversation with @reluctantcaregiver.bsky.social today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
January 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
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Okay, so. Things are very bad and dispiriting, but due to some kind of mental wiring I am systematically oriented to find hope and joy across time. And there is a particular piece of media I have revisited at many many times across my adult life in Bad Times for the World, and it's this. (1/n)
Candy Everybody Wants -- Natalie Merchant and Michael Stipe
YouTube video by TheChris403
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February 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Okay, so. Things are very bad and dispiriting, but due to some kind of mental wiring I am systematically oriented to find hope and joy across time. And there is a particular piece of media I have revisited at many many times across my adult life in Bad Times for the World, and it's this. (1/n)
I had to update Word on my computer and now it's trying over and over to write my memoir for me with a new embedded AI feature, anyway the dystopia is fully here on all levels!
January 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I had to update Word on my computer and now it's trying over and over to write my memoir for me with a new embedded AI feature, anyway the dystopia is fully here on all levels!
where do I sign
January 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
where do I sign
Coming Summer 2026! I'm very excited to be working with the fantastic team at Beacon Press again on my second book, WATERSHEDS!
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Coming Summer 2026! I'm very excited to be working with the fantastic team at Beacon Press again on my second book, WATERSHEDS!
Back in my hometown for the holiday, rented an Airbnb, flipped through the welcome binder--and discovered via the "historical information" section the owner included that the house's original owner was my great-great-grandfather!
November 28, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Back in my hometown for the holiday, rented an Airbnb, flipped through the welcome binder--and discovered via the "historical information" section the owner included that the house's original owner was my great-great-grandfather!
The salmon are running in the American River and watching them is a balm for the soul (for Sac locals, I spotted these and many many many more yesterday at the Upper Sunrise river access)
November 18, 2024 at 9:27 PM
The salmon are running in the American River and watching them is a balm for the soul (for Sac locals, I spotted these and many many many more yesterday at the Upper Sunrise river access)
I was in the mood for a real dramatic Netflix-based knock-down drag-out this Friday evening so obv I'm watching 1970s week on GBBO, complete with crème pat split like a bloody lip, choux flattened in the oven, etc
November 16, 2024 at 5:16 AM
I was in the mood for a real dramatic Netflix-based knock-down drag-out this Friday evening so obv I'm watching 1970s week on GBBO, complete with crème pat split like a bloody lip, choux flattened in the oven, etc
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I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
November 15, 2024 at 11:20 AM
I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
Yes. My grandfather had polio as an adult, just before the vaccine was developed, and I grew up hearing his and my mom's stories about his isolation and the disease's aftereffects (he was lucky and "only" had paralyzed abdominal muscles). The past is never dead; it's not even past.
The thing that kills me is you don't need a time machine to understand this. My buddy is in his 80s and grew up on Iowa. He point blank said as a kid sometimes other kids just died. That was his childhood.
I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
November 16, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Yes. My grandfather had polio as an adult, just before the vaccine was developed, and I grew up hearing his and my mom's stories about his isolation and the disease's aftereffects (he was lucky and "only" had paralyzed abdominal muscles). The past is never dead; it's not even past.
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An ouroboros of satire! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site plans to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:26 PM
An ouroboros of satire! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...