Kay Husnick

Joined December 2017

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Time Capsule
these words are frozen captured here in a moment but I will move on
By Kay Husnickabout a month ago in Poets
The magic really has disappeared in The Santa Clauses
"The Santa Clause" movies were a Christmas staple growing up, so when a new addition to the movie trilogy was announced as a six-episode series on Disney+, I was curious. After breakfast on Christmas morning, my partner and I decided to start on the first movie and watch all the way through to "The Santa Clauses."
By Kay Husnick3 months ago in Geeks
Cuyahoga
waves splash as birds squawk a calm settles in the air this river once burned
By Kay Husnick3 months ago in Poets
The wild
People come and go. Every day, a crowd of humans walk in, stare, point. The sign says not to tap on the glass, but the little ones do it anyway. I stare back at them.
By Kay Husnick4 months ago in Fiction
Seneca Point
this is escapism the world shrunken down below distant, unreal
By Kay Husnick4 months ago in Poets
Burnout
The phone rings at 2 a.m. and the flame that was finally starting to return simmers down again to smoky embers. Back to work. Always, always, always back to work.
By Kay Husnick5 months ago in Poets
10 more multi-genre writing prompts
Two years ago, I published a list of 15 multi-genre writing prompts after scrolling through website after website, article after article of repeated writing prompts.
By Kay Husnick5 months ago in Education
Memory Blurs
The things that make me sad sometimes blur together now, so I can't recall whose favorite Little Debbie snack is oatmeal creme pies
By Kay Husnick9 months ago in Poets
The perfect Halloween party playlist
Throwing a Halloween party? The best part about selecting the music is that you have options. You can go with Halloween classics, like the Monster Mash (a must, really), but you aren't as limited as you might be with Christmas party music, for example.
By Kay Husnickabout a year ago in Beat
Giving what I didn't get
There are three obvious reasons to start working in higher education: 1) you had an amazing time in college, and you want to give that experience back to the next set of students; 2) you had a horrible time in college, and you want to make things better for the students after you; or 3) you don't want to grow up, and working at a school feels like putting the real world on pause.
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Education
Sometimes, quitters do win
Three months ago, I was miserable with my job. My coworkers were not fully trained or corrected on mistakes. Each shift, I was fixing errors and catching up on tasks that always went undone between my times there. Multiple guests each week were commenting about me being visibly overworked, and management wanted to shift some of their responsibilities onto me without any other adjustments (including my hourly pay).
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Journal
TikTok paid my vet bills
In the middle of this past November, I moved into a new apartment. It was just me and my cat. No roommates. No cosigner. I had counted down the days to moving in and newfound freedom. It was supposed to be Happy and I against the world, but things don't always go as planned. Happy, my cat, died the night we moved in.
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Petlife