Essays, Short Stories, and Humor

Gail Gauthier: The Collected Essays

Blackened Pans in The Bigger Picture, May 17, 2022. A personal essay that includes both eating and books.

We Are All Going To Die, In Case You Weren't Feeling Enough Time Pressure in Feedium, Jan. 6, 2022. This was a formal book review, rather than the reader response type posts I do at Original Content. It involved a book I’d used for a number of time management posts there.

A Minimalist's Christmas at The Bigger Picture, Dec. 6, 2021. 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.

Slow Down, You Write Too Fast self-published at Medium, Nov. 30, 2021. This was an attempt to rework a blog post from Original Content.

Still Another Story About The Medium Writers Challenge self-published at Medium, Oct. 23, 2021. Medium ran a writers’ challenge last year, which I took part in. A number of people published essays on the challenge, so I went ahead and did one, too.

What We Did There at Tell Your Story, Aug. 20, 2021. 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.

Enough at Kitchen Tales, Aug. 11, 2021. 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.

Heroes at Bending Genres, June 11, 2018. A flash memoir that also happens to be a dog story.

My Bread Loaf at The Millions, Aug. 8, 2011. A memoir-like piece about my experience working in the kitchen at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College.

Burned at The Millions, Aug. 18, 2010. 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.

Mom Memory at Literary Mama, Aug., 2007. My attempt to reconcile my life as a mother with my life as a martial arts student.

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.

A Night at the Dojang at VerbSap, 2005. 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.

Whose Community? Where is the "YA" in YA Literature in English Journal, Vol. 91, Number 6, July, 2002. Sample my article on young adult readers.

Gail Gauthier: The Collected Short Stories

Fears That We May Cease To Be at The Blue Nib Literary Magazine, May, 2020.

	Rosemary and Olive Oil at Alimentum, January, 2013.
	How Mom Saved the Planet in Cricket Magazine, May, 1993, Vol. 20, N. 9
	The Mystery of the Ring-Tailed Cat in Cricket Magazine, Oct., 1983, Vol. 11, N. 2

Gail Gauthier: The Collected Humor Writing

	You Are The Parents Of Sixth Graders. Act Like It. at Frazzled, June 2, 2022. Yes, I did chaperone a few too many field trips when my kids were young.
	There's Not Going To Be A St. John The Baptist Day Parade This Year, Eli at The Haven, May 31, 2022. My family is on of the few in the United States that celebrates this holiday. Once we had a bouncy house!
	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. I should be upfront and say that I don't drink coffee.
	Living in Nature at Slackjaw, Feb. 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.
	Your Child Has Been Exposed To COVID...Again. UPDATE: Do Whatever You Want! at Frazzled, Feb. 9, 2022. This was difficult to write. Repeating UPDATE and including text with strikethroughs helped a lot.
	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.
	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!
	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.
	My Child Doesn’t Watch YouTube and Yours Shouldn’t, Either at Frazzled, Feb. 3, 2021. Humor from the toddler trenches.
	Dear Pastor Bill at The Haven, Dec. 2, 2020. Communion Sundays during the pandemic...wow.
	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.