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About Kate Chen

Writing a memoir about writing a memoir while experiencing memory loss caused by multiple sclerosis. Graduate of GrubStreet's Memoir Generator and Memoir Incubator. Published in Momentum's humor section, National Multiple Sclerosis Magazine. Former Executive Directive, Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science; Director of Gifts and Grants, Harvard Sten Cell Institute; Communications Manager, Western Academy of Beijing. Vassar College, '90, Philosophy major I live in Allston, MA my old and spunky beagle-basset named Sunday.

Ketchup toss

I dreamt that the mother character Marie from Everybody LKoves Raymond was teaching me how to play a game where I had to throw a bottle of ketchup and hit a food item from rows stacked in front of me. I started to throw the bottle at a loaf a bread but she told me I should only throw my ketchup at another kat or maybe another condiment.

Look. Shark.

I dreamt Luke Cadigan (who I only know by name from high school) had a home with a glass wall looking half under the ocean and half above. My four-year-old daughter would not stop running around in circles with the other kids long enough to notice the great white shark swimming past the living room.

Looks like a duck

I dreamt that my daughter’s friend Heath and I were ducks but, per his human father’s rules, were not allowed to go into the swimming pool because “you don’t know how to swim.” I argued that because we were ducks, we obviously could. I left the pool and went to the library to find back up for my argument.