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Author Gail Gauthier's Reflections On Books, Writing, Humor, And Other Sometimes Random Things

Friday, June 12, 2026

Jane Yolen's On-line Journal: An Appreciation

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Jess Bailey on Unsplash Recently I noticed that I hadn't seen anything from Jane Yolen on Facebook in quite some time. Long enough to re...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The Reading History Project: History and Politics

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In Writing the Trump Years Into History in The New Yorker (May 12), historian Jill Lepore writes about writing history. After calling upon ...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Getting Serious About Humor: Hyperbole, the Risky Literary Device

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Timmossholder on Unsplash  "I have a nagging fear that children's literature suffers from a slightly higher crud percentage than li...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Seeking Time: A Sort of Hiatus for Original Content

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I'll be cutting back on blogging for probably the next six weeks while I help out a couple of family members. I have two blog posts in p...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

The Reading History Project: What Are We Doing for Mother's Day? Mothers as Activists!

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Mother's Day, in my humble opinion, can be fun if you have young children. Otherwise: It's an opportunity for a lot of marketing. It...
Saturday, May 09, 2026

Seeking Time: The Unit System

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Very early in my seeking time journey someone told me about an article in Poets & Writers by author  Ellen Sussman in which she descri...
Friday, May 08, 2026

Friday Done List May 8

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 A good week. At least, it feels like a good week. Goal 1. Write And Publish Adult Short Stories, Essays, and Humor  Truly worked on a humor...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2026

The Story Behind the Story: Minimum Word Counts

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Frontier Myth vs. Frontier Reality was published this weekend at Books Are Our Superpower  after a request for editing because the publicat...
Friday, May 01, 2026

Friday Done List May 1

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I read an article about a woman who tracked every hour she spent writing for six months. What she found out was that a lot of the time she w...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Seeking Time: Begin Again

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I said  recently that back during the fourteen years that I was writing about time regularly, "I was hungry for ways to get things done...
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