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
Concentration, Meditation, and the Point of Sex: A Contemplative Valentine
By Kellie Schorr Holidays in the Moment is a six-part series examining the paramitas, also known as the six perfections or the six transcendent actions, through the lens of the holiday season and beyond. These attributes help us...
The Backwards Child: Finding Wisdom in a Moment
By Kellie Schorr Holidays in the Moment is a six-part series examining the paramitas, also known as the six perfections or the six transcendent actions, through the lens of the holiday season and beyond. These attributes help us...
Joyous Effort: The Women Who Were Also There
By Kellie Schorr Holidays in the Moment is a six-part series examining the paramitas, also known as the six perfections or the six transcendent actions, through the lens of the holiday season and beyond. These attributes help us...
From #MeToo to “Let’s Pretend”—Pema Chodron Calls Out Shambhala’s Shameful “Business as Usual.”
By Kellie Schorr Everybody draws a line in the sand at some point. It’s that marker we put down to let people know when they’ve gone too far or said too much. It’s the “I can take ‘this’ but not ‘that’” moment. It’s the straw that breaks...
A Kaleidoscope for my Heart: The Tattooed Buddha and Me
By Kellie Schorr As a child (and even now) I was entranced by kaleidoscopes. Swirling patterns of different colors, shapes and possibilities pleased my eyes and my mind in a way other things could not. My parents happily gave me...
Patience: Finding Joy on The Back of the Tree
By Kellie Schorr Holidays in the Moment is a six-part series examining the paramitas, also known as the six perfections or the six transcendent actions, through the lens of the holiday season. These attributes help us to open up...
Navigating Hug Season for Those Who Hate Touch (And the Rest of You)
By Kellie Schorr Holidays in the Moment is a six-part series examining the paramitas, also known as the six perfections or the six transcendent actions, through the lens of the holiday season. These attributes help us to open up...
Ok, Boomer: Thanksgiving Across the Divide
By Kellie Schorr Holidays in the Moment is a six-part series examining the paramitas, also known as the six perfections or the six transcendent actions, through the lens of the holiday season. These attributes help us to open our...
Unstuck: What Do You Remember?
By Kellie Schorr On a planet spinning through space with a natural cycle of shadow and light, growth and death, somehow, impossibly, so many of us are stuck. It’s a circumstance that greets every generation. Children and young people...
Halloween: The Most Honest Day of the Year
By Kellie Schorr Depending on which part of the US you live in, the air is crisp or humid, your closet is full of sweaters, long-johns or t-shirts and the trees are amber, already barren, or palms. Still, on October 31 we all experience...
A Transport to Beginner’s Mind: The Zen of R2-D2 by Matthew Bortolin {Review}
Do you need to understand Star Wars to get something from this book? Yes, it’s full of references, vocabulary and world-specific markers. Do you need to understand Zen? No, not at all. It’s better if you don’t.
The House of Sleeping Buddhas: The Challenge of Inherent Goodness in a Hurting World
By Kellie Schorr I believe all sentient beings have the nature of a Buddha, an inherent goodness that issues in compassion, joy, and equanimity, as their natural state of being. That’s how I usually answer the question, “What do you...
Right Facebook: How to End Suffering One Post at a Time
By Kellie Schorr The prime directive of Buddhism is found in the Four Noble Truths---the beautifully bulleted, clear as a bell, seed of awakened wisdom that blossomed when Siddhārtha Gautama unfolded as The Buddha. Translated over time,...
Until: The Beauty of Knowing You Really Do Have Time
By Kellie Schorr I love the story of the Buddha’s life. Every time a teacher or speaker says, “Let’s start with the story of the Buddha…” I settle in and smile. It’s better than Cinderella plays the Hunger Games and discovers...
Have You Met Karma?
By Kellie Schorr “The Buddha in the Corner” is a six-part series based on the six realms of existence in the Buddhist Wheel of Life as they are found in everyday experience. In the Bhavachakra (Wheel of Life) there is a Buddha in...