Katherine Phelps

Everyone is born into circumstances that they cannot control: ethnicity, nationality, class, health, etc. Everyone is raised by a family and within a culture that has particular outlooks. When you are a child at first you just accept the knowledge being given you, because you have no other knowledge with which to compare it and […]

Don’t even read this article until you have watched the video link below. We are animals. I do not mean that in the pejorative sense. I mean that in the sense that our behaviour, whether for good or ill, is not that different from those beings with whom we share this planet. What happens to […]

The US currently has a president with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Three fields of work particularly attract people with NPD: media, politics, and of all things…charity/causes. These are places where people, who demand all attention be focussed on them, can achieve steady ego-supply. In theatre we already have a term for this: Diva. It gets […]

An End We are without question seeing the end of an era–perhaps the end of a collection of eras: the industrial era, the era of capitalism, and the anthropocene are all on the verge of collapsing. In the stages of grief humanity is feeling, many sense the darkness of ending but are lost in denial. […]

Every nation divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. In the mansion of humanity there are three floors. On the top floor live the matriarch and the patriarch of the controlling family. On the middle floor are all the children and grand-children. On the […]

Okay, people! It’s time to sharpen your pencils (or charge up your laptops). Now is the time to think big and make out your wish list. We all need to be ready for the next couple of Federal elections. Our democracy is seriously broken. Some of it was broken from the beginning. Some of it […]

So, we have people who want to convert you to their way of thinking. This could be for reasons: Sometimes to make the world a better place, Sometimes to validate those people’s sense of self. “Hey! I have great ideas! You should agree with me, so that I can feel secure that I have great […]

I have spent much of my adult life trying to get people activated. It can be hard and discouraging at times. People don’t want their lives ruffled. They don’t want to self reflect and find themselves feeling guilty. They are scared of the consequences of stepping outside of the norm. I promise you, if you […]

We are not fighting men. We are dismantling patriarchy, Most especially white patriarchy. Even women can be part of the patriarchy. But we must remember that men are the ultimate beneficiaries of this system. And consciously or unconsciously, many will act to defend their privilege. We must practice self awareness. We must consciously choose kindness, […]

“I’m just beside myself with sadness because our president is a bully, our president is a punk, and he just doesn’t get it. I don’t know where he was raised but his family didn’t do a good job raising that guy.” ~Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney 2017 A scenario A bully knocks a child over on […]