Katie’s Real. January 8.

Sometimes it’s just too real.

Sometimes it makes me want to scream.

Sometimes it makes me want cry.

Sometimes it makes me do both.

Sometimes the unfairness and realness is too much for me to take.

Katie should not have to write this. But she did.

Katie should not have to live this. But she does.

So today I share this real. The reality of being a police officers kid. The reality of how dangerous their job is.

And like her Mom, my kindred said “I wish they(the critics- the cop haters) would walk a mile in her shoes.”

This is our real. This is their reality.

This is Katie’s real.