Skip to content

SALT AND IRON: seasoned writing

  • Write for Us!
  • Purpose
  • Contributors
  • Archives

Author: Kittie Helmick

Kittie Helmick studied Comparative Literature and Critical Translation at the University of Oxford, after serving with the Peace Corps in South Africa. Her desire to speak truth in grace led her to found Salt and Iron: Seasoned Writing and its predecessor GoodTrueBeautiful. She has also published critiques of pop culture on The Critic, The Federalist, and Patheos.
Poetry

Color Theory

Unwind of three a cool duet and force

Posted on April 15, 2025May 5, 2025
Art

Escaping the Nightmare: “Catch-22” vs “The Man Who Was Thursday”

An ordinary man discovers a terrible secret: he is living in a nightmare. Yossarian, the war pilot protagonist from Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22, finds himself … Read More ›

Posted on July 9, 2024June 21, 2024
Art

A Pilgrim, Not a Tourist

Half-British, half-French, all-around traveler, scholar, and satirist Hilaire Belloc published Path to Rome in 1902. It chronicles his pilgrimage from France, over the Alps, and … Read More ›

Posted on May 28, 2024May 20, 2024
Kittie Helmick writes about cancel culture for Salt and Iron: Seasoned Writing
Politics

Fight the Cancel Mob

A man is more than his tweets. Every “canceled” story is just the tip of the iceberg—not only because there are so many cases that … Read More ›

Posted on June 7, 2022June 5, 2022
rose garden Disney - Kittie Helmick, Salt and Iron SeasonedWriting
Art

Del Toro Got Disney Wrong

The worst thing about revisionist readings is not that they ruin nostalgia for old classics, or undermine the moral foundation of society—it’s that they so … Read More ›

Posted on May 24, 2022May 18, 2022
Red Turtle Kittie Helmick seasoned writing salt iron
Art

Finding God in Studio Ghibli

The Red Turtle is a collaborative project between the iconic Studio Ghibli and the Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit, known for his interpretive short … Read More ›

Posted on April 12, 2022April 12, 2022
israel covenant government kittie helmick seasoned writing salt iron
Politics

Ancient Israel’s Solution to Bad Government

Today’s conservative is the new liberal. With the so-called liberals of our generation advocating for policies like state-imposed censorship, young conservatives assume the mantle of … Read More ›

Posted on May 11, 2021May 11, 2021
kittie helmick seasoned writing black death plague
Art

Book Review: The Black Death

“Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed at least one third of Europe’s inhabitants,” declares the back cover of Philip Ziegler’s work on the … Read More ›

Posted on November 26, 2019November 30, 2020
sports Atalanta race watching
Living

I Watch Sports and You Should, Too

Once upon a time, I disdained to watch sports. Watching sports, in my estimation, constituted a waste of time, a needless assimilation into vacuous pop … Read More ›

Posted on May 19, 2016November 11, 2017

Posts navigation

Older posts

Check your inbox or spam folder now to confirm your subscription.

Featured

  • Peter Jackson Ruined Thorin's Death Speech
    Peter Jackson Ruined Thorin's Death Speech
  • Nun or Wife: Career Counseling from Christ
    Nun or Wife: Career Counseling from Christ
  • Weaving: The Secret of Life
    Weaving: The Secret of Life
  • Why Homeschoolers Don’t Have Friendshomeschooling antisocial children education
  • Journey Down Grief’s Toll Road: Interview with Thomas F. SleeteThomas Sleete interview Salt Iron Seasoned Writing grief Christian book publish
  • Facing the Loss that Comes with AgeThomas Sleete on dementia and friendship for Salt & Iron SeasonedWriting.com
  • Novels Teach What Textbooks Can’thistorical fiction novel dabney seasoned writing salt iron
  • A Brief History of Donald J. TrumpTrump fool king Donald J.
  • The Story of a StorytellerThomas Sleete on storytelling for Salt and Iron: Seasoned Writing
© 2025 SALT AND IRON: seasoned writing
Powered by WordPress / Theme by Design Lab