Every daughter wants to love and be loved by her father. But Katie's father left their family when she was 12 and left the planet when she was 22. His departures were hard, but the ripples that followed were hard, too.

Trigger warning: this episode contains references to contemplated and completed suicide.

Every daughter wants to love and be loved by her father. But Katie's father left their family when she was 12 and left the planet when she was 22. His departures were hard, but the ripples that followed were hard, too. Trigger warning: this episode contains references to contemplated and completed suicide.

Katie, a daughter with a dad-shaped hole

While "the unexamined life is not worth living," is a stronger stance than I take, I do believe the examined life allows a person to get smarter about how to live it. 

So, that's what I do here—reflect on my life or something from life. My hope is that my public reflections prompt your own private reflections and that together we build a life with a little more breathing room, a little more intelligence, a little more forgiveness for ourselves and those we love.

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While "the unexamined life is not worth living," is a stronger stance than I take, I do believe the examined life allows a person to get smarter about how to live it. So, that's what I do here—reflect on my life or something from life. My hope is that my public reflections prompt your own private reflections and that together we build a life with a little more breathing room, a little more intelligence, a little more forgiveness for ourselves and those we love.

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