Welcome to karenkalish.com, my personal website.
I grew up in St. Louis, moved to DC in 1967 to get out of St. Louis, Chicago in 1978 to be a tv reporter at ABC there, back to DC in 1983, to Cambridge MA in 1999 to get a Master’s in Public Policy at the Kennedy School at Harvard, back to St. Louis in 2001, then to Seattle in July 2022. I’m healthy and wanted to spend my next chapter near water and mountains in a blue city in an almost all-blue state, and it’s fun being near two of my five nephews and their families, some cousins, and longtime friends.
I bought a beautiful condo downtown near the Space Needle, the Chihuly Museum, and the Olympic Sculpture Park. I see Mt. Rainier (when it’s “out”) every morning and sunsets from my living room. I loved city living – at first. But I’m not a condo person (too many rules and elevators that go out and I’m on the 20th floor!) so I am looking for a house.
Please let me know if you’re anywhere near here – I have a guest room/bath that looks out over Puget Sound for you – and will always have a guest room wherever I live!
I have met 600+ people since I moved here (cuz I say Yes to everything!) thanks to all of you who introduced me to your friends, colleagues, and relatives. (If you have anyone you think I would enjoy, and vice-versa, please e-intro us.) I love building community. So much so that a group and I are starting the Jewish paper here in Seattle – The Jewish Sound.
I’m so lucky to be healthy. In fact, I’m a super-ager! 80+ years with no diseases and my own joints and bones. I’m so fricking lucky.
