Katrina's Blog

Staying Alive

It was just a training session, and we were completely safe. Still, we crouched, terrified, behind an empty patient bed listening to the “active shooter”

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Emergency Training

“I’m sorry to interrupt,” the McDonald’s employee said politely approaching our table, “but is there anyone here that knows first aid?  There’s a child choking

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A Jar of Peanut Butter

“We’re closing soon,” the man at the soup kitchen said, looking me up and down.  I had been tugging on the locked glass doors when he

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Flaws and Beauty

Last week in Wisconsin, Marnell and I went to the farmhouse where I grew up, the school where I used to teach, the church where

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