Kathy Patalsky - Notes
Notes is the audio home for the writing and voice of Kathy Patalsky — an author, writer, and photographer living in Los Angeles.
It’s a collection of unfiltered short essays that say out loud the thoughts many people carry quietly, capturing modern life as it unfolds in real time.
A mother and creative entrepreneur, Kathy writes with emotional clarity and a sharp cultural lens, moving between personal reflection and cultural observation with ease.
An elder millennial with deep ties to pop culture, technology, and online storytelling, she has been creating on the internet since 2007 — moving through an iconic blog, cookbooks, screenwriting, paid brand collaborations, contributor roles, and digital media. A two-time cookbook author with a global audience, her career has unfolded publicly, alongside the culture itself.
Kathy Patalsky - Notes
Latest Episodes
dad's chair
A chair in the middle of the living room.Caramel brown, worn down, always facing the TV.This is a memory about growing up in the kind of house that felt loud, imperfect, and completely whole, until one day it wasn’t.About what...
pink lemonade
If you need one easy win this week - this is it.In this episode, I’m talking about the blur of weekends with a young kid, the moments that don’t stick, and the one thing we did that actually did: homemade pink lemonade.It’s simple...
titanic
Titanic came out on December 19, 1997. I saw it opening weekend, Sunday afternoon, December 21st, in a packed theater in downtown Santa Cruz. I still have the ticket stub.In this episode, I go back to that moment an what it fe...