Kellie Schorr works as a novelist who writes mystery genre novels. Her published credentials also include: journal articles, short stories, and a two-year stint writing for a web-comic. Kellie’s debut literary novel, The Space Between Breaths, will be published by Brother Mockingbird in early 2025. Practicing in the Nyingma Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, Kellie is a personal student of Dr. Pema Khandro Rinpoche and member of the Vajra Sangha of the Buddhist Studies Institute. She lives and works in rural Virginia with her partner, Cathy, and their beagles. Her favorite word is chiaroscuro. You can contact or find more about her at Kellieschorr.com
The Car Won’t Start! What to Do When Nothing Goes to Plan
When the ignition won’t catch, our first impulse is usually the same as the horror hero’s—we turn the key harder. We chant louder, pray longer, meditate forever, hoping that one more try will get us running again.
Empathy isn’t Something You Can Earn: Charlie Kirk and the Trolley Problem
We don’t need to measure the life of anyone to feel empathy about the suffering that is occurring.
To Be Seen By The Sacred: The Weight and Wisdom in Thai Tattoo Magick
This book challenges the romanticization of exotic tattoos that end up representing experience without responsibility. Zed is explicit about the cosmic scrutiny such talismans invite.
Kellie Schorr Talks Writing, Publishing and Her Latest Book: A Space Between Breaths
She is a Buddhist yogi in the Tibetan tradition and worked as a prevention specialist in the field of HIV and AIDS. She said she has always been a writer. She talks about her journey as a professional writer and how it can take many, many submissions to get published. We also talk about how she found The Tattooed Buddha and began writing for us here.
No Need to Run: What Slasher Film Killers Teach Us About Impermanence
Impermanence doesn’t care about your step count or your strategy. It doesn’t hate you. It’s not cruel. It’s just… coming.
The Space Between Breaths by Kellie Schorr {Book Review}
When Kellie Schorr messaged me asking if I would review her upcoming book, The Space Between Breaths, I was not only grateful, I was chomping at the bit.
Exploring the Haunted House: Walking the Path of Unresolved Trauma
There is a world outside of your house. There are paths you can choose. There is a future you can forge. Let what arises, arise. Hold it. Own it.
The Girl Who Runs Up The Stairs: How This Horror Movie Trope Helps Us Cope with Political Chaos
You don’t have to stop a raging river. You can be a boat that helps someone across it. You don’t have to change the world. You just need to show up and make a difference where you can.
Rudolph’s Light: Finding Peace Amid the Christmas Warping…um…Wrapping
By Kellie Schorr When I grew up, Rankin/Bass stop motion animation specials were the Star Wars franchise for Christmas. Although Santa Claus is Coming to Town had me singing, and Frosty the Snowman warned me about loser magicians, no show was more beloved,...
A Very Special Episode: The Four Noble Truths of November 5th
I always chuckle when my fellow Gen Xers say, “We were tough back in the day.We didn’t have trigger warnings as kids, we just had to deal with things” because almost every Very Special Episode featured a PSA or advisory warning at the front of the episode and a hotline or help resource number at the end.
Forget the Stages, Find a Path: Review of The Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence, edited by John Brehm
John Brehm’s lovely The Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence is a collection of work by people who get it and know how to share it.
The Fathers We Lost to Fox: Grieving Someone Who Is Still Alive
By Kellie Schorr *Author’s Note: I am a registered independent and not affiliated with any party. I don’t care who gets your vote. I don’t care why you vote. I don’t care if you vote. This article is not about the election. It is about a social...
American Idol: What the Last Supper Controversy Shows Us About Protest
By Kellie Schorr Here in the USA, it seems like there is an open wound just waiting around every corner. During an overly hot summer where divisive politics, toxic racism, ageism and sexism, climate crisis, food recalls, and bad driving dominate every...
A Friend You Never Had: A Review of N33D: Poems of Human-Being by J. L. Pendall {Book Review}
By Kellie Schorr Everywhere. Everywhere we go screens are blaring at us with bright, horrible, bountiful noise. Bad news. Good news. Promises of hope. Portents of doom. The more stressed we become, the louder our surroundings scream at us until we, too, are...
Love Means Never Using ChatGPT to Say You’re Sorry
I read recently that one of the top five personal uses of ChatGPT is to write apology letters. This fact was supported by the proliferation of AI apps designed to create perfect apologies. Honestly, my first thought was, “If you need to apologize so often that you download an app to do it for you—well—what kind of monster are you?”