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I Take Linen Towels to the Gym

There’s a saying people like to repeat with a tone of quiet authority: how you do anything is how you do everything. It’s usually delivered as wisdom. Occasionally as a warning. Say it with enough confidence and it sounds like a law of human nature, simple, explanatory, tidy. It reassures people that if you understand one corner of someone, you’ve unlocked the whole floor plan. I’ve always found it persuasive. And also completely unworkable. Because if it were true in any literal sense, I would be an extremely […]

Just Say No

Remember Nancy Reagan and her ridiculous anti-drug campaign? Yeah, that didn’t work. Of course it didn’t. That’s because “no” isn’t for us to tell others what to do. It’s about what we choose to do or not do. There was a time when I couldn’t just say no Declining an invitation required a story. Not just a sentence, but a small narrative arc. A reason with edges softened in advance. Something plausible, preferably external, preferably temporary. I was busy. I was tired. I already had plans. I’d been

About Katherine Flores – Kflo

I grew up on the coast of Maine, in Cape Elizabeth, where the Atlantic does its quiet, relentless work shaping stone, weathering certainty, teaching patience without ever naming the lesson. That sense of time and tide never really left me. Katherine Flores: New Yorker Graduate school brought me to New York City in 1994. I expected it to be temporary. It wasn’t. I’ve lived here ever since, drawn in by the city’s velocity, ambition, and tolerance for complexity. The city rewards people who can think clearly while many