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Time to Heal or Get Back on the Horse? (Online Dating, Ego, & Heartbreak)
I was out with my mom just before Mother's Day, and in that moment, I felt genuinely happy when I thought of you. We had come a long way...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Jun 54 min read


Evil, Damaged, or Just Human? (Essay on “Bad” Men)
It took another mind-fuck to get inspired enough to write again, so thank you, LHM, for the motivation I needed to get back to what I...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
May 305 min read


75 HARD: Triumphant Fail
"Why do you have to do everything so extreme?" "Have you ever heard of the word 'moderation'?" To answer these actual questions proposed...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Dec 26, 20214 min read


UN-STICK ME
Feeling stuck is a strange phenomenon I've gotten to know intimately. It almost has a power over you and no matter what you do, you just...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Jun 13, 20213 min read


ONLINE DATING: I'M CLEARLY GREEN, WHAT COLOR ARE YOU?
I started my on-again-off-again journey with the perplexing world of online dating about a year ago. You’d think by this time one would...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Jan 18, 20215 min read


Can we get closure when we've never gotten "closure"?
Closure means finality; a letting go of what once was. Finding closure implies a complete acceptance of what has happened and an...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Aug 15, 20203 min read


What the F*%# is a PARADOX IN REVERSE??
par·a·dox /ˈperəˌdäks/ noun a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Aug 3, 20192 min read


WHAT MAKES A LIFE WORTH WRITING ABOUT?
“And I don’t want the world to see me Cause I don’t think that they’d understand When everything’s made to be broken I just want you to...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Aug 1, 20192 min read


A RIPPLE...
I recognized a long time ago that very few people were going to “get me” this time around. I started to think God made a mistake when He...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Jul 31, 20192 min read


DEAR NURSING HOME STAFF...
I worked as a nurse in a nursing home for a year. Almost daily, I wanted to curl up in the fetal position by the time I was off work. It...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Jul 31, 20193 min read


"Wonderfully Dense"
Excerpt from CHAPTER 1; PARADOX IN REVERSE “You put yourself in stupid places Yes I think you know it's true Situations where it's easy...

Katja Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Jul 31, 20191 min read
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