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
Living Bead by Bead: A Non-Traditional Mala Practice
By Kellie Schorr Early in my mindfulness journey I bought a mala---a set of 108 beads worn around the wrist or neck. I wear mine on my wrist. Traditionally it is used to count repetitions when someone employs a mantra as part of their centering or...
What’s So Good About Awakening?
By Kellie Schorr “Honey, get up.” “No. I’m sleeping.” “You are not.” “Well, I was…” “Get up. I need you. The printer is broken.” Bleary and more than a little annoyed, she goes into the spare room to see a red light flashing on the printer console....
The Work of an Awakened Heart (at the Dentist’s Office)
By Kellie Schorr For the record, I am not afraid of the dentist. I am afraid of that weird octopus chair with metal arms that dips so far backwards I feel like I’m in zero-G training at NASA. I’m afraid of every single one of those glistening spikey...
Impermanence: Loving in Spite of Knowing the Loss
By Kellie Schorr Buddhists and mindfulness teachers share a pretty happy message most of the time. That is, until they write a book. For some reason, when it’s time to write about sacred matters the happiest authors tend to get bogged down in...
Meditation Won’t Make Life Perfect, but Will Let You Begin Again
By Kellie Schorr Forget-Me-Not: Meditation as Remembrance The needle pulled back and forth through the linen with a gentle “thup, thup, thup.” Most evenings she could lean back in her spot the couch and listen to the soothing percussion...
What is Compassion?
By Kellie Schorr I come from a long line of Tennessee hillbillies, er, Appalachian Americans. My grandparents on my father’s side---Charity Grace Rupard and William “Stone” Rupard---were subsistence farmers who owned land in a holler...