Kate Parlez
@parlezkate.bsky.social
Midlife writer/editor and practicing witch in Midcoast Maine; solo, sober, and something else. Aka HellaNewEngland
Good night to my 40s. If I had any energy left at all after this tough week, I would go to goth night.
July 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Good night to my 40s. If I had any energy left at all after this tough week, I would go to goth night.
If you see this, drop an old picture you still love.
SF, 1999? Me and my hometown besties at the Levi’s store Photo Booth.
SF, 1999? Me and my hometown besties at the Levi’s store Photo Booth.
July 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
If you see this, drop an old picture you still love.
SF, 1999? Me and my hometown besties at the Levi’s store Photo Booth.
SF, 1999? Me and my hometown besties at the Levi’s store Photo Booth.
I’m at the threshold of 50, feeling overwhelmed and chaotic, sublimating hard. Turns out planning a big bday, a visa/transatlantic move, shedding 90% of my belongings, managing complicated relationships, and keeping my shit together is hard. Woke up to this, my leftover dinner on my altar.
July 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I’m at the threshold of 50, feeling overwhelmed and chaotic, sublimating hard. Turns out planning a big bday, a visa/transatlantic move, shedding 90% of my belongings, managing complicated relationships, and keeping my shit together is hard. Woke up to this, my leftover dinner on my altar.
Vinalhaven sugar overload.
July 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Vinalhaven sugar overload.
Teenage me is so stoked to visit the site that inspired Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth.
June 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Teenage me is so stoked to visit the site that inspired Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth.
Eighth grade, 1988
One of these kids is not like the others. #neverendingmathequation
One of these kids is not like the others. #neverendingmathequation
June 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Eighth grade, 1988
One of these kids is not like the others. #neverendingmathequation
One of these kids is not like the others. #neverendingmathequation
I went to Hallowell to watch the sturgeons jump out of the water (no one knows why I guess) on their way to/from spawn. A burgeon of sturgeons. #hallowell #maine
June 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I went to Hallowell to watch the sturgeons jump out of the water (no one knows why I guess) on their way to/from spawn. A burgeon of sturgeons. #hallowell #maine
I didn’t protest today, but I did go on a birding boat trip led by my friend Bird Kate. I saw: puffins, eiders, gulls, murres, loons, oystercatchers, a porpoise, a seal, terns, and some Wyeth islands. I love Maine with my whole heart, I truly do.
June 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I didn’t protest today, but I did go on a birding boat trip led by my friend Bird Kate. I saw: puffins, eiders, gulls, murres, loons, oystercatchers, a porpoise, a seal, terns, and some Wyeth islands. I love Maine with my whole heart, I truly do.
I took 10 years off from working out while I healed disordered exercise habits, but I’m back. I’ve been going to the gym 5-6 days/week for about an hour with the intent of strengthening my #tornACL knee and getting my flexibility back. I am shocked at how much fun I’m having being in my body!?
June 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I took 10 years off from working out while I healed disordered exercise habits, but I’m back. I’ve been going to the gym 5-6 days/week for about an hour with the intent of strengthening my #tornACL knee and getting my flexibility back. I am shocked at how much fun I’m having being in my body!?
I am a middle-aged woman who still covers everything she loves in stickers.
May 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am a middle-aged woman who still covers everything she loves in stickers.
Without downloading any pics where are you mentally
May 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Without downloading any pics where are you mentally
How about an update? Went to see Marvel do some shadow work at the theater. Am going to the gym a lot and seeing giant improvement in my torn-ACL knee. Still working on immigrating but in the meantime, having a great time with my friends. Reading and writing a ton. Plotting, plotting, plotting.
May 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
How about an update? Went to see Marvel do some shadow work at the theater. Am going to the gym a lot and seeing giant improvement in my torn-ACL knee. Still working on immigrating but in the meantime, having a great time with my friends. Reading and writing a ton. Plotting, plotting, plotting.
I’ve been tending to my corporeal husk all morning. Hold my calls. It’s time to LANGUISH, motherfucker!
March 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I’ve been tending to my corporeal husk all morning. Hold my calls. It’s time to LANGUISH, motherfucker!
I drove myself to PT, dropped my recycling off, filled the car up with gas, went through McD’s drive thru, and ate my fries and McFlurry while going through the car wash. I’m back(-ish), baby!!! It’s been a long 3.5 months, I’ll tell you what.
March 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I drove myself to PT, dropped my recycling off, filled the car up with gas, went through McD’s drive thru, and ate my fries and McFlurry while going through the car wash. I’m back(-ish), baby!!! It’s been a long 3.5 months, I’ll tell you what.
I drove a car for the first time in 3 mos today. And ate a burrito by the sea. I miss my dog most when there is sunshine. This has been an update.
March 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I drove a car for the first time in 3 mos today. And ate a burrito by the sea. I miss my dog most when there is sunshine. This has been an update.
I’ve pretty much decided that I’m going to see how far I can get on my knee without #ACLsurgery. Experts have advised me that lots of people are walking around with torn ACLs, MCLs, and menisci. Since I have no pain, I’m gonna see how I do with PT and strength training.
February 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I’ve pretty much decided that I’m going to see how far I can get on my knee without #ACLsurgery. Experts have advised me that lots of people are walking around with torn ACLs, MCLs, and menisci. Since I have no pain, I’m gonna see how I do with PT and strength training.
Winter has been wintering so hard, and there’s more coming. Arthritis is burning up my left knee and bones are rattling around in my right, my sinuses be poppin’ from the weather — but I’m getting by OK with help from my friends.
February 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Winter has been wintering so hard, and there’s more coming. Arthritis is burning up my left knee and bones are rattling around in my right, my sinuses be poppin’ from the weather — but I’m getting by OK with help from my friends.
Same. I had to walk out onto this ice sheet to get to my ride to PT for my blown-out knee. It was … v bad.
February 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Same. I had to walk out onto this ice sheet to get to my ride to PT for my blown-out knee. It was … v bad.
Happy 10th anniversary of meeting Eleanor Roosevelt, my best friend for 9 amazing years.
Miss you, Elly. Every day, every way.
Miss you, Elly. Every day, every way.
February 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Happy 10th anniversary of meeting Eleanor Roosevelt, my best friend for 9 amazing years.
Miss you, Elly. Every day, every way.
Miss you, Elly. Every day, every way.
Thank you. I am too! And yeah I have high ceilings so that might be the issue?
February 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Thank you. I am too! And yeah I have high ceilings so that might be the issue?
Overnight I turn the heat pump down from 70 to 65-66 and this is what it is currently reading. I’m so angry.
February 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Overnight I turn the heat pump down from 70 to 65-66 and this is what it is currently reading. I’m so angry.
Updates:
mentally iffy
physically steadier
emotionally evasive
creatively persistent
financially ehhhhhh
spiritually regressive
magically engaged
politically mortified
ethically indignant
socially held
romantically fictional
sexually also fictional
medically speculative
locally hibernating
mentally iffy
physically steadier
emotionally evasive
creatively persistent
financially ehhhhhh
spiritually regressive
magically engaged
politically mortified
ethically indignant
socially held
romantically fictional
sexually also fictional
medically speculative
locally hibernating
February 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Updates:
mentally iffy
physically steadier
emotionally evasive
creatively persistent
financially ehhhhhh
spiritually regressive
magically engaged
politically mortified
ethically indignant
socially held
romantically fictional
sexually also fictional
medically speculative
locally hibernating
mentally iffy
physically steadier
emotionally evasive
creatively persistent
financially ehhhhhh
spiritually regressive
magically engaged
politically mortified
ethically indignant
socially held
romantically fictional
sexually also fictional
medically speculative
locally hibernating
Awesome! I’m in. I was able to sign up for your newsletter but I couldn’t get to the Discord. I’m parlezkate there too, if you want to add me and send a link? This is what I saw:
February 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Awesome! I’m in. I was able to sign up for your newsletter but I couldn’t get to the Discord. I’m parlezkate there too, if you want to add me and send a link? This is what I saw:
These little tag headers are good for that. Some days I just want to look at corvids.
February 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
These little tag headers are good for that. Some days I just want to look at corvids.
Rabbit rabbit!
Happy Imbolc, witches. My home in Midcoast Maine is under a fresh blanket of snow, which feels appropriate for the day. Just in here healing and gestating in a wintry cocoon. Nowhere to go and (Ken voice) couldn’t go there if there was.
Happy Imbolc, witches. My home in Midcoast Maine is under a fresh blanket of snow, which feels appropriate for the day. Just in here healing and gestating in a wintry cocoon. Nowhere to go and (Ken voice) couldn’t go there if there was.
February 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Rabbit rabbit!
Happy Imbolc, witches. My home in Midcoast Maine is under a fresh blanket of snow, which feels appropriate for the day. Just in here healing and gestating in a wintry cocoon. Nowhere to go and (Ken voice) couldn’t go there if there was.
Happy Imbolc, witches. My home in Midcoast Maine is under a fresh blanket of snow, which feels appropriate for the day. Just in here healing and gestating in a wintry cocoon. Nowhere to go and (Ken voice) couldn’t go there if there was.