Katrina Irene Gould has spent thirty fulfilling years as a psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon. Her personal essays, poetry, reviews, and stories have appeared in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, The Gilded Weathervane, The Adanna Literary Journal, HerStry, Mukoli: The Magazine for Peace, Glacial Hills Review, Literally Stories, and others. Steve Almond says, “Writing is a forgiveness racket.” Gould writes in hopes of demonstrating that we can examine our complicated human experiences, and in so doing create more compassion for our struggles—since often the person we most need to forgive is ourselves.