Becoming Overpackers: For Me, For You, For Us



By Kat Silverglate © 2026 “Within every heart there exists a special place, a place where the hopes and dreams of the soul soar, unchained by logical or physical entrapments. For some… this place becomes… where the spirit runs free……


By Kat Silverglate © 2026 A small group of writers from various parts of the United States got together to encourage one another in, what felt like, a call to figure out how to release hope-filled words into a world…


By Kat Silverglate © 2026 A young boy walks by a building site and scratches his head. It is filled with more construction vehicles and workers than the tiny frame for a cottage seemed to justify. Boy: “What are y’all…


By Kat Silverglate © 2026 Psychologists say we are wired from birth to trust. A need arises, like hunger. Food, a matter of life or death for a child, arrives to satisfy the need. The consistency of satisfaction teaches a…


By Kat Silverglate © 2026 “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” Roald Dahl If you are… let’s say… in your very early sixties. Hypothetically of course.…


By Kat Silverglate © 2026 It was a large professional conference at an extraordinary venue. One where the professionals brought their spouses and kids and planned to enjoy the destination between meetings and Continuing Legal Education seminars. She wasn’t on…


By Kat Silverglate © 2026 I think she was attempting to help parents bridge the disconnect between the way children in a digital age are exposed to information and the way older, non-digital natives grew in knowledge. Here’s the gist…
