The Agent Search

Happy to report this morning that even if I can't find an agent, I can get published writing about my agent search. Having fun replying to comments about this, too, at Brevity Blog. Thanks, Editor Dinty Moore, for publishing it. https://…
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When Your Ex-Husband Calls

Answering the phone used to be thrilling. It was your best friend, or Publisher’s Clearing House, for real. OK, yeah, occasionally it was bad news. But when you picked up, you knew someone wanted you, the actual you, not a number on a robo…

Some Thoughts on the Royals’ Underwear

When Princess Diana was alive, I read that the Royals threw away their underwear after one wearing. I was thinking of that this morning as I replaced the worn-out elastic in the waist of a skirt I bought in 1992. A skirt so old, the company…

Running Through San Diego

Had my BEST run in the month we've been here in San Diego this morning ... military police not withstanding. We headed toward the beach at Coronado. Stu was taking Satchel to the most excellent dog beach, while my plan was to run south on the…
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In Search of Āina in Hawaii

Honored to have Decolonial Passage publish this essay, and then nominate it for Best of the Net 2023.   We have crossed the Big Island of Hawaii to the western Kohala shore in search of a sandy beach and surf. It is raining hard on the eastern…

When the NYT declares, “Kathy Watson, 2020!”

One day you are sitting on the coach getting over hernia surgery, and the next day you’re in the pages of the New York Times, The New York Magazine, Mediaite, and David Green is saying your name on NPR’s Morning Edition. Not because you…