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“If I’m Honest…” will be the one place where you’ll find me (Kate Hammer) in all my dimensions, speaking frankly about my range of interests.

That range is, if I’m honest and not-quite-grammatical, disorientingly large: I’m obsessed by

• how people live in their internal worlds and in the wider world,

• what we see and what we miss,

• what we tolerate and what we knock ourselves out to change.

Some of what I read I’ll share in my Bookshop.org bookshop here.

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So what’s it like to live 2.9-degrees of separation from everyone one earth, you might ask? Frankly, I don’t believe I do….but I do have a funny story about how closely my father is connected to the cultural phenomenon surrounding the six-degrees-of-separation theory. And if you can tolerate this level of randomness, we’ll do ok, you and I.

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