Whether hearing, reading, or learning to create, stories filled my childhood and have helped to shape the way I view and understand the world. Eventually stories led me to medicine, and I am currently a fellow, completely my final two years of training. Out of respect for my program and my patients, I chose a pen name – Katherine, the name I blogged under for 15 years, and Cole, after the family who first told me stories and encouraged me to write down my own.