by kathykastner | Oct 22, 2022 | explorations
I always felt fortunate that I had as my ‘aging’ model, a mother who started tap dancing at age 66, and became associate TV producer at age 68. But my real insight into a joyous journey to the End came via a tweet chat. My mother was a force of nature. She...
by kathykastner | Oct 22, 2022 | Dogs
After years of dating, marrying, divorcing and marrying again, soon adding two young kids, I thought I was happy with two low(ish) maintenance Cats. Busy tho that was, a dog-need caught me by surprise. I lobbied to no avail. And then the universe heard my cry: at the...
by kathykastner | Oct 22, 2022 | Dogs
Molly and I have an exceptional relationship, even tho we’re often separated by the bars of a fence. Malina I met when she’d just arrived from Greece. The language barrier made her reticent, but I thot she was absolutely worth me being patient. Now, she greets me with...
by kathykastner | Oct 11, 2022 | Speaker
I earned my speaking chops in a previous life: as an on-camera reporter. My ‘beat’ was vastly removed from Health, but nonetheless held me in good stead when making presentations. . Stanford Medicine X | Change: Dying can be fun from Kathy Kastner Stanford Medicine X...
by kathykastner | Oct 6, 2022 | explorations
Considering how much I enjoy things made of bits of things – faces made of pictures of faces, cats made of pebbles, Frida Kahlo made of buttons – one might think I’d naturally be drawn to puzzles. I’ve taken note of the puzzles my youngest daughter and my oldest...