Katlyn Roberts
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 9 min
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, 2022
- 9 min
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 3, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 12 min
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, 2020
- 13 min
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
- Jan 31, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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
- Oct 8, 2019
- 3 min
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
- Aug 16, 2019
- 4 min
The Healing Power of Writing Satire
Tips and tricks to humor your depression. Satire noun The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Jun 14, 2019
- 3 min
Shut Up and Write
Finding a writing community on the other side of the world. In San Francisco, I had a routine. Every Sunday morning at 11, I’d meet my...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Jun 14, 2019
- 3 min
Immigration in the U.S. Hasn't Changed in 100 Years
And I've got the freaky historical evidence to prove it. Come along, dear reader, on a racist, xenophobic, antisemitic journey through...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Mar 18, 2019
- 5 min
The Statues in Egypt Used to Have Eyeballs
This. Changes. Everything. Mitri the Scribe was once the highest-paid servant of Pharaoh Unas in the 24th century BC. He was the guy you...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Mar 18, 2019
- 5 min
Secrets of a Lady’s Toilet
The Satirical Genius and Revolutionary Feminism of Lola Montez. “I expect to win the gratitude of the whole masculine gender by these...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Mar 18, 2019
- 5 min
When Do You Know You’re “Home”?
I’ll hold off on the clichés if you can put up with a personal story. The Gothic District of Barcelona is a winding maze of cobblestone...
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