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 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?”
Man or Bear? What would the Buddha Choose?
Because it’s not about bears.
Jesus Washed Feet: What A Superbowl Ad Can Really Teach Us
By Kellie Schorr I don’t have many boy crushes but Arnold Schwarzenegger in the winter of his life is one of them. So it was no surprise when my “Top Commercial of the Superbowl” vote went to State Farm’s Like a Good Neighbaaa. One that didn’t make my list was...
Secret Agent Swift? The Suffering Of Conspiracy Theorists
As Sports Illustrated pointed out from a data perspective—in the AFC Championship game, a broadcast that lasted three hours and nine minutes, Taylor Swift was shown seven times, for a total of—44 seconds. That’s hardly “domination.”
Why are Spiritual Communities so Mean?
In a world where war, chaos and fear swirl around on the daily, it’s natural for people to look for respite in groups that are uplifting, hopeful and full of light and spirit. When those groups fail to live up to their stated goals, it can be disheartening and even harmful.
Bud Light, Barbie, and Bathrooms: Harvesting Compassion out of Rage
By Kellie Schorr “You have to understand these were tumultuous times.” Watching a documentary about the national hysteria following the Manson murders, that was the explanation given. It was the time of Vietnam, social unrest between the establishment and the...
The Rainbow Connection: Pride (and Prejudice) On the Path
By Kellie Schorr On a Saturday in June 2005, the sun had no mercy. Neither did the police. Neither did the Baptists. Although sunrise was a pleasant 73 degrees, by 10:00 AM when the parade was supposed to start it was 90 degrees. I stood there on the boiling...
The Dark Sacred Night: Finding Meaning in the Monsters of Halloween
By Kellie Schorr “I see skies of blue And clouds of white The bright blessed day The dark sacred night And I think to myself What a wonderful world” As a child, Halloween meant two things to me: Costumes and Candy. I was ambivalent about costumes. I was...