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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 4, 20228 min read
Sagrada Familia: The Divine Creative Freedom of Architect Antoni Gaudí
A celebration of science and spirit. I’ve started a little tradition for myself. I never leave La Sagrada Familia Cathedral without...
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Katlyn Roberts
Sep 13, 20229 min read
How the Concept of Pain Has Changed Throughout History
And why you feel like an a-hole for complaining about it now. Churches in Europe are on a whole other level, man. And yet I’m somehow...
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Katlyn Roberts
Jul 20, 20227 min read
Impressionist Writing in Monet's Gardens
A travel writing exercise and fan cross-over Woman in the Garden This piece is going to be different from my usual historical pieces....
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Katlyn Roberts
Dec 29, 202012 min read
What Happens to Our Love When It’s Filtered Through Grief
Processing 2020 in a cemetery so you don’t have to. A few weeks after the presidential election was called back in my home country, the...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 23, 202013 min read
Call Wage Theft What It Is: Part-Time Slavery
The history behind America’s billion-dollar wage theft problem and how to fight it. Hardly any of the bus drivers at the tour companies I...
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Katlyn Roberts
Jan 31, 20202 min read
Mark Twain vs. the Emperor of the United States
The story of an Americana darling and his living shadow. I’m mad at Mark Twain right now. If you follow along with my writing (and you...
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Katlyn Roberts
Jan 24, 20203 min read
Boobies, Conquistadors, and Other Things We Put up on Pedestals
What’s more interesting than the history a public statue represents? How that statue got there in the first place. It occurs to me that I...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20193 min read
Go to Porto for the Best Existential Crisis of Your Life
Legacy can be slippery... I had an existential crisis in Porto, Portugal and, I don’t want to blame specific people, but J.K. Rowling,...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20193 min read
Travel Writing: 7 Tips To Captivate Your Readers
Ok, I know I’ve lost your trust with several of my previous listicles. You thought you were gonna get real tips on how to be a freelance...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20193 min read
They Called Me Boobasaurus-Rex
An apology letter to my boobs. To my Darling Double-Ds, Started from the bottom, now we here. This letter is a long time coming, I know....
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20193 min read
Where Can a Girl Get a Decent Bottle of Hot Sauce?
Am American griping in Europe. People ask me all the time what the cultural differences are between the U.S. and Spain and when I say...
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Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20192 min read
You’re Sleeping On Breakfast
Breakfast can change your life. I'm cereal. My parents never let me and my siblings eat anything colorful for breakfast because our...
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Katlyn Roberts
Jun 14, 20193 min read
Shut Up and Write
Finding a writing community on the other side of the world. In San Francisco, I had a routine. Every Sunday morning at 11, I’d meet my...
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Katlyn Roberts
Mar 18, 20198 min read
The Statues in Egypt Used to Have Eyeballs
This. Changes. Everything. Mitri the Scribe was once the highest-paid servant of Pharaoh Unas in the 24th century BC. He was the guy you...
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Katlyn Roberts
Mar 18, 20195 min read
Secrets of a Lady’s Toilet
The Satirical Genius and Revolutionary Feminism of Lola Montez. “I expect to win the gratitude of the whole masculine gender by these...
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Katlyn Roberts
Mar 18, 20195 min read
When Do You Know You’re “Home”?
I’ll hold off on the clichés if you can put up with a personal story. The Gothic District of Barcelona is a winding maze of cobblestone...
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Katlyn Roberts
Mar 18, 20193 min read
If You’re Not a Freelance Writer Now…
… you will be by the time you’re done reading this. Are you tired of living with your parents and ignoring emails from FedLoan? Have you...
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Katlyn Roberts
Mar 18, 20193 min read
American Amb-ass-adors
What it’s like to be an American abroad in the time of Trump. If you want to see some phenomenal English stand-up in Barcelona, you need...
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