Gail Gauthier: The Collected Essays
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A Minimalist's Christmas at The Bigger Picture. I
really did get the idea for this after deciding not to buy something for
my kids. I did the first draft a couple of years ago.
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What We Did There at
Tell Your Story.
This was one of my two submissions for the writers challenge mentioned
above. It is also one of a series of "black belt essays" I've written
over the years about my experience as a taekwondo student. I had
done a draft for a workshop the year before, and used the structure I'd
learned there for it, as well as the feedback I received. So we’re
talking workshopping, folks. I workshopped something.
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Enough at Kitchen Tales.
My
second submission for the writers challenge. I started this at least a
year earlier. Since I am interested in writing about eating, I was
pleased to get an opportunity to finish and publish it.
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 | Heroes at Bending
Genres. A flash memoir that also happens to be a dog story.
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 | My Bread Loaf
at The Millions. A memoir-like piece about my experience working in
the kitchen at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College.
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 | Burned at The
Millions. Here you can read about how things were going with my career a
while back and learn that I know too much about one particular TV show.
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 | Mom
Memory at Literary Mama. My attempt to reconcile my life as
a mother with my life as a martial arts student.
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 | Girl
Deficiency in The
Horn Book, Sept./Oct., 2007, Vol. 83 Issue 5, p 538. This short essay,
not available on-line, was written for The Horn Book's special issue on
how gender affects reading.
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 | A Night at the Dojang
at VerbSap. The first of what I think of as the Black Belt Essays,
mainly because at my taekwondo school we had to write an essay every time we tested for a
new black belt level. This was not one of mine.
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Gail Gauthier: The Collected Short Stories
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Rosemary and Olive Oil at
Alimentum, January, 2013.
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 | How Mom Saved the Planet in Cricket Magazine, May, 1993,
Vol. 20, N. 9
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 | The Mystery of the Ring-Tailed Cat in Cricket Magazine,
Oct., 1983, Vol. 11, N. 2
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Gail Gauthier: The Collected Humor Writing
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Your Guide To Finding The Perfect Church
at The Haven, May 2, 2022.
This piece began life long ago as a wry, David Sedaris-type essay with very little coffee.
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 | Living
in Nature
at Slackjaw,
February 18, 2022. This is another example of a shell form, the shell being a class unit. I worked on this for two months while on weekly hikes.
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Your Child Has Been Exposed To COVID...Again. UPDATE: Do Whatever You
Want! at Frazzled,
February 9, 2022. This was difficult to write. Repeating
UPDATE and including text with strikethroughs helped a lot.
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I'm More Altruistic Than You Are
at The Haven, Dec. 14,
2021.
This is an example of a shell form, the shell being a text
conversation between two people.
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Daddy Is Watching The Olympics Again
at Frazzled, Aug. 3, 2021.
And, kids, next winter you get to spend weeks of your life
watching the Olympics again but with snow!
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Relieve Your
Anxiety NOW! at
The Haven, June 16, 2021. Yes, I have been to a couple of
meditation workshops. No, they weren't like this.
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My Child Doesn’t Watch YouTube and Yours Shouldn’t, Either at
Frazzled, Feb. 3, 2021. Humor from the toddler trenches.
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Dear Pastor Bill at
The Haven, Dec. 2, 2020. Communion Sundays during the
pandemic...wow.
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Well, How Many Masks Have You Made? at
Medium, May 25, 2020. I've made
over a hundred of these things. I've given up counting.
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