Rebrand in Progress...

As you can probably tell from my new “About” page, the publication formerly known as Catalectic is undergoing a makeover.

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October 2025

[ARCHIVES] On Sarkozy's Incarceration

As a once-upon-a-time Embassy intern... do I admit I once had a crush?

Oct 21, 2025 • Alicia Kenworthy

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[ARCHIVES] What I should have said

(was nothing)

Oct 14, 2025 • Alicia Kenworthy

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September 2025

[ARCHIVES] Two Dark Green Sconces and a Black Dog

Note to Reader: Earlier this summer, when I began timidly dipping my toe into writing about Gaza on this platform, one of my most loyal readers, Jim…

Sep 30, 2025 • Alicia Kenworthy

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August 2025

July 2025

[ARCHIVES] I Think I've Seen This Film Before

In Israel-Palestine, Echoes of France's Colonial Past

Jul 1, 2025 • Alicia Kenworthy

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May 2024

[ARCHIVES] One Reason I Hate Ice Breakers is I Always Overshare

If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be and does this exercise make you as uncomfortable as it does me?

May 4, 2024 • Alicia Kenworthy

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February 2024

[ARCHIVES] Here's a Quarter

Thoughts on the deepening rift between Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus

Feb 5, 2024 • Alicia Kenworthy

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January 2024

[ARCHIVES] Hyperbaric Oxygen & Finnegan's Wake

I should be in an airport in Miami right now, en route to Costa Rica, for a writing retreat.

Jan 24, 2024 • Alicia Kenworthy

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December 2023

[ARCHIVES] A Whale of a Problem

Mark is cheating on us. He delivers the news matter-of-factly, almost under his breath, to fill an already awkward pause in conversation. None of us…

Dec 21, 2023 • Alicia Kenworthy

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[ARCHIVES] Calcification

Have you ever heard a friend’s work voice for the first time? he asks. The question throws me back to cusp-of-30; Friends who talk system integrations…

Dec 17, 2023 • Alicia Kenworthy

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October 2023

[ARCHIVES] Goat Yoga

My mom asks how it went last night. Was I performing? Or just seeing a friend? I tell her I just went to see a friend. That’s so generous, she says…

Oct 27, 2023 • Alicia Kenworthy

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