Kate Baggott
Bio
Kate Baggott is a Canadian writer whose work spans from technology journalism to creative nonfiction and from chick lit to experimental fiction.
Stories (8/0)
Finnegan & His Sisters
Adolescent self-absorption. That’s what my parents call my habit of lying on the couch to think for hours on end. It’s not true. If I were self-absorbed, I would think that this family dynamic started when I was born. I would think that the whole story revolved around my birth. It didn’t.
By Kate Baggott2 years ago in Fiction
The Bluebird
Other men in history have fathered children in four decades, but all my children are with the same woman. Isabel’s favourite word is still Daddy and we’ve raised our share of eyebrows in town. Even better are the reactions when the silver-haired goddess -- my wife -- approaches us to shouts of “Mommy! Mommy, over here!”
By Kate Baggott3 years ago in Humans
Fun with Catfishers
As it so often does, the Urban Dictionary has described a catfisher perfectly: “A catfisher is the name coined to a bottom dwelling human, who spends a great deal of time on the net in various locations, luring people into a falsely based romance.”
By Kate Baggott4 years ago in Lifehack
COVID-19 Political Economy
Would we be happier if we were richer? That is the question I’m asking while my kids and I appear to have various degrees of depression. Our COVID-19 situation is common. Under employment coupled with boredom and uncertainty are keeping us down.
By Kate Baggott4 years ago in Journal
International Dog of Mystery
April 15 2004 to April 27 2018 Gilda Radner Baggott died after a brief illness on 27 April 2018 at the age of 14. Beloved dog of Kate, Brian and Mary, Gilda was a dog of unprecedented calm and awareness who came into our lives in September 2011. We arrived at the rescue shelter just a few minutes before another family who had been attracted by the adoption profile with the line: “Gilda loves children above everything…”
By Kate Baggott4 years ago in Petlife
For the Love of Parsnips
We were dog people without a dog. Gilda, our beloved international dog of mystery, died almost two years ago. No one and nothing could ever replace what she meant to us. Still, the kids and I knew something was missing. We needed the buffer pets provide in families. The calming influence that soothes difficulties between strong personalities all working toward their own goals while living together.
By Kate Baggott4 years ago in Petlife