Kate Sjostrand 6/15/26 Kate Sjostrand 6/15/26

I Wasn't Riding to Escape

For most of my life, I was trying to escape. Escape pain. Escape disappointment. Escape myself. But somewhere between dying, surviving, rebuilding, and falling in love, something changed. For the first time in my life, I wasn't riding to outrun anything. I was simply riding.

Kate Sjostrand 12/6/25 Kate Sjostrand 12/6/25

Before Dawn

Since dying three and a half years ago, I’ve become a morning person. Not the cute “wake up at seven with coffee” kind — the “3 A.M. because the universe shook me awake” kind. And in that silence, untouched by the noise of billions of sleeping humans, my real life began.