Katie Regan https://kkregan.com/ Writer. Editor. Explorer. Creator. Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:26:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/kkregan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-390979_10100944892344979_201126870_n.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Katie Regan https://kkregan.com/ 32 32 143640280 Preconceived Notions: Geelong, Australia https://kkregan.com/preconceived-notions-geelong-australia/ https://kkregan.com/preconceived-notions-geelong-australia/#respond Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:23:42 +0000 https://kkregan.com/?p=585 Preconceived Notions is a feature I do before traveling to a new place. I think it will be interesting to see how my impressions of a place change once I get to know it. Disclaimer: the whole point of this exercise is to expose my ignorance, please don’t @ me telling me how wrong I […]

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]]> https://kkregan.com/preconceived-notions-geelong-australia/feed/ 0 585 August in Brooklyn https://kkregan.com/august-in-brooklyn/ https://kkregan.com/august-in-brooklyn/#respond Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:29:22 +0000 http://kkregan.com/?p=568 A perfect three-week August house sit in Brooklyn Originally, my plan was to leave August mostly free. I figured I might like the time to bop around and see friends and family and just bask in my freedom. As my France house sit drew to a close, however, I began to realize that not having […]

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]]> https://kkregan.com/august-in-brooklyn/feed/ 0 568 Six Weeks in Southeastern France https://kkregan.com/southeastern-france/ https://kkregan.com/southeastern-france/#respond Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:06:52 +0000 http://kkregan.com/?p=541 I spent six weeks in the foothills of the French Alps and it wasn’t long enough. This house sit is one for the record books. Don’t let the months that have elapsed since I was there tone down my enthusiasm at all. This place was beautiful. It was peaceful. It was conducive to productivity. I […]

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]]> https://kkregan.com/southeastern-france/feed/ 0 541 Milan and a Peek at Turin https://kkregan.com/milan-and-a-peek-at-turin/ https://kkregan.com/milan-and-a-peek-at-turin/#respond Mon, 17 Sep 2018 09:27:36 +0000 http://kkregan.com/?p=502 Hello my rabid fans, I am back! I know it’s been a while, but I’ve had a month of travel and location changes, in addition to trying to balance paid work with personal work (this is why I need to be independently wealthy, people). I’ve got a lot to catch you up on, so here […]

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]]> https://kkregan.com/milan-and-a-peek-at-turin/feed/ 0 502 One Year Job Single and My First Time Doing Comedy https://kkregan.com/one-year-job-single-and-my-first-time-doing-comedy/ https://kkregan.com/one-year-job-single-and-my-first-time-doing-comedy/#respond Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:26:45 +0000 http://kkregan.com/?p=478 Bookending a Year with a Failure and a Triumph One year ago last week, I was let go from my last full-time job, sending me on a wild whirlwind of anxiety, self-doubt, and under-employment. Exactly a year later, I did stand-up for the first time.  Since I lost my job, a few things have happened: […]

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]]> https://kkregan.com/one-year-job-single-and-my-first-time-doing-comedy/feed/ 0 478 Adventures in Tourist Fatigue https://kkregan.com/adventures-in-tourist-fatigue/ https://kkregan.com/adventures-in-tourist-fatigue/#respond Mon, 06 Aug 2018 18:15:07 +0000 http://kkregan.com/?p=463 Traveling doesn’t have to mean seeing everything all the time About a week into my stay in France, the homeowners came home for a week and encouraged me to take advantage of our location and do some traveling. How could I resist? I was in a part of the world I had never really been […]

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]]> https://kkregan.com/adventures-in-tourist-fatigue/feed/ 0 463 Preconceived Notions: Southeastern France https://kkregan.com/preconceived-notions-southeastern-france/ https://kkregan.com/preconceived-notions-southeastern-france/#respond Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:13:29 +0000 http://kkregan.com/?p=454 I had some ideas about what a month in France would be like before I even got here It turns out that while in Tenerife and Berlin, I completely forgot to line up my Preconceived Notions post for my France house sit. As a result of being distracted by the beginning of my new lifestyle, […]

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]]> https://kkregan.com/preconceived-notions-southeastern-france/feed/ 0 454 I’ve Never Been a Slytherin https://kkregan.com/ive-never-been-a-slytherin/ https://kkregan.com/ive-never-been-a-slytherin/#respond Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:26:19 +0000 http://kkregan.com/?p=423 Slytherins are known to be incredibly ambitious, and that traditionally hasn’t been a big problem of mine My whole life I’ve been content not to reach. I have been content to phone it in. I never aspired to be an astronaut or an author or even a doctor or lawyer. I aspired to have a […]

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]]> https://kkregan.com/ive-never-been-a-slytherin/feed/ 0 423 Impromptu Trip to Berlin https://kkregan.com/berlin/ https://kkregan.com/berlin/#respond Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:29:01 +0000 http://kkregan.com/?p=396 What do you do when you have a few days in between house sits? You go to Berlin, of course!  When my time in Tenerife was up, I had a few days before I had to be in France for my next house sit. Originally, I was going to just spend those nights in Geneva, […]

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]]> https://kkregan.com/berlin/feed/ 0 396 Impostor Syndrome is my Boyfriend https://kkregan.com/impostor-syndrome-is-my-boyfriend/ https://kkregan.com/impostor-syndrome-is-my-boyfriend/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2018 13:31:36 +0000 http://kkregan.com/?p=359 …but the kind of boyfriend that won’t leave you alone, is scared of your success, and gaslights you all the time. We all have our demons, our imperfections, the things we can’t hide from. I think of those comics about depression with the cloud, or the dark blob, or whatever it is consistently hulking over […]

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