Three Taboos refers to the three infamous topics of conversation best avoided in polite company. My name is Kristen. My best friend started calling me “K” (not Kay – just K) more than ten years ago and it sort of stuck, even among my family. I answer to both. I am still struggling to figure out what the hell I’m doing with this blog. At first I thought it might be a running critique of political debate, as in, why does polarizing Internet discourse manage to be so…polarizing? Then I thought I might pepper my posts with some childhood reminiscences (I can still channel my inner four year old). Then I thought, to hell with this blog…I quit. Then I got fired (my “position was eliminated”) from my teaching job. Then I thought, well, blogging about whatever the hell enters my brain is incorrect in the blogging world (stick to one subject!), but I don’t care. So this blog is about whatever the hell it turns out to be. It’s free form. It’s whatever I decide it is. It’s me.
Update (October 2016): During the eight year lapse between posts, I had three children, obtained the credentials to teach special education, moved to the suburbs, and began teaching again in the city. I did not vaccinate my children until they were three, three and five years old, and decided to submit a story about my decision to vaccinate to a pro-vaccine website called “Voices for Vaccines.” Then the New York Post picked it up and added a little drama and a sensationalist title, and before you know it, I was all over the internet and even appeared on Good Morning America. I am a nerdy bookworm introvert (introverted nerdy bookworm?), so it’s been interesting.
“People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fit that cookie cutter. It’s the other way around. One works by simple observation, looking into things. It’s usually called insight and out of that comes your view — not that you have the view first and then squash everything to make it fit. I’m talking about staying out of the Procrustean bed.”
~ Margaret Atwood
Three Taboos 
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