Katlyn Roberts
How My Loved One’s Dementia Turned Me Into a History Writer
All we have is the past. Dementia. I wake it up, I cook its meals, I put on its bib, I zip its zippers, tug on its shoes, adjust its...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 11, 202213 min read
How Frankenstein was Born- Mary Shelley’s Brilliant, Famous, Tragic Parents
Inventing the Sci-Fi genre at age 18 required a radical upbringing. This all started because my sister bought me a stunning, green and...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 4, 20228 min read
Sagrada Familia: The Divine Creative Freedom of Architect Antoni Gaudí
A celebration of science and spirit. I’ve started a little tradition for myself. I never leave La Sagrada Familia Cathedral without...
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Katlyn Roberts
Sep 23, 20227 min read
The First Recorded Same-Sex Couple in History
OMG, they were tomb-mates I’m going to rip the bandaid off real quick here by letting all my gaybies know that there is significant (as...
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Katlyn Roberts
Sep 13, 20229 min read
How the Concept of Pain Has Changed Throughout History
And why you feel like an a-hole for complaining about it now. Churches in Europe are on a whole other level, man. And yet I’m somehow...
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Katlyn Roberts
Sep 8, 20229 min read
How Religious Belief in a Soul’s Potential Diminishes After Birth
And why it matters in the age of anti-abortion, nuclear threats, and civil rights As long as I’ve been alive, my family’s told the same...
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Katlyn Roberts
Aug 9, 20225 min read
I Was an Overnight Medium Success Story
Please allow me to update you on "My Incredible Success" I made $613.11 in my first consistent month as a paid contributor due to two...
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Katlyn Roberts
Aug 3, 20228 min read
In Your Writing, Be the Bad Guy
The trickster archetype narrator and how to utilize it. “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also...
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Katlyn Roberts
Jul 20, 20227 min read
Impressionist Writing in Monet's Gardens
A travel writing exercise and fan cross-over Woman in the Garden This piece is going to be different from my usual historical pieces....
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Katlyn Roberts
Dec 29, 202012 min read
What Happens to Our Love When It’s Filtered Through Grief
Processing 2020 in a cemetery so you don’t have to. A few weeks after the presidential election was called back in my home country, the...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 23, 202013 min read
Call Wage Theft What It Is: Part-Time Slavery
The history behind America’s billion-dollar wage theft problem and how to fight it. Hardly any of the bus drivers at the tour companies I...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 23, 202011 min read
A Shift in Space-Time: How to Find Your Pace in a Pandemic
Why time flies when society comes undone. This pandemic is shaking us to our foundations. It’s literally forcing us to reconsider both...
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Katlyn Roberts
May 15, 20209 min read
To Understand Our Scary World, Read About Fire-Breathing Dragons
What a princess, a knight, and an evil dragon can teach us about Covid-19. We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of...
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Katlyn Roberts
Jan 31, 20202 min read
Mark Twain vs. the Emperor of the United States
The story of an Americana darling and his living shadow. I’m mad at Mark Twain right now. If you follow along with my writing (and you...
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Katlyn Roberts
Jan 24, 20203 min read
Boobies, Conquistadors, and Other Things We Put up on Pedestals
What’s more interesting than the history a public statue represents? How that statue got there in the first place. It occurs to me that I...
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Katlyn Roberts
Jan 19, 20208 min read
How to Keep Online Readers Engaged in Long Articles
Check in with your audience and avoid shouting into the void. According to a study by Microsoft, humans now have an attention span of...
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Katlyn Roberts
Jan 19, 20202 min read
Depression’s a Funny Little Bugger…
How to coax your creativity out when it wants to crawl inside a hole. So, my “Top Humor Writer” status has gone away since I started...
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Katlyn Roberts
Jan 19, 20203 min read
Your Archetypes Want a Word With You
You’ve got some old beliefs and thought patterns that need shifting. I recently wrote that I’d decided to read all 72 books from a...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20193 min read
Go to Porto for the Best Existential Crisis of Your Life
Legacy can be slippery... I had an existential crisis in Porto, Portugal and, I don’t want to blame specific people, but J.K. Rowling,...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20193 min read
Travel Writing: 7 Tips To Captivate Your Readers
Ok, I know I’ve lost your trust with several of my previous listicles. You thought you were gonna get real tips on how to be a freelance...
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