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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.

Keurig

I dreamt I tried to make a cup of coffee with my Keurig, but I couldn’t get it right, failing maybe 100 times, for example, I used apple juice or cocoa instead of water; the mug and the whole base of the machine went missing; and I added rice or frozen corn instead of coffee; and I added orange juice or ice tea instead of half n’ half.  I never got it right.

Globes

I dreamt that I was walking down a mall-like hallway looking through a series of glass walls.  Behind each one were several pedestals of differing sizes each with a spherical or oblong glass globe.   These globes were all beautiful, like enormous marbles: some with abstract swirling patterns, some with images of the night sky or sunny floating fluffy clouds.   The globes were glowing, mesmerizing and I walked gazing at them all down the long hallway.  The backdrop behind the rooms of globes of globes was open to a night sky with stars at varying depths and the feel of the black expanse of the universe. This dream was beautiful.

Smurfs

I dreamt that I was running over rolling hills of grass, just beautiful, green grass as far as I could see.  With me in the grass were hundreds of surfs, surrounding me and running, also.  Every so often, I knew that a surf wanted to talk to me, so I paused and picked one Continue reading