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Hello, friends, and happy Father’s Day for those who celebrate! This past week was a bitch. I’m kind of reeling from it still. As a result, I found myself not really ripping to write about any particular thing for today’s essay so I consider it some musings as I complete the 2024-2025 school year on…

Hello, friends. What a week this has been! One of the last real weeks of the 2024-2025 school year. I’m bogged down in grading but I’m getting through. This coming week is the last five-day week. Three of the five days are for finals so the students will only be there half the day. Then…

Hello, friends. This was supposed to come out earlier today but then it was supposed be written yesterday and neither happened. I usually try to handle the newsletter writing on Saturdays so they can be sent out on Sunday. For some reason, yesterday got away from me. It was busy in my household though I…

Hello, friends. This is going to be a long newsletter because my essay, the final part of “Chased From the Park,” is nearly 3,000 words long. I could’ve broken up into two parts and have had that story be four parts in this newsletter, but I decided to go for it. I hope you don’t…

Hello, friends. If you’ve been following me or reading my diatribes for any length of time, you know that I’m a big Bruce Springsteen fan. His music has guided me through good times and bad, jubilant and horrific. This week, I am so damn proud to be a Springsteen fan. He made news this week…

Hello, friends. Happy Mother’s Day to those who celebrate! Teacher’s Appreciation was this week and I’d be remiss if I didn’t give appreciation to the teachers I had who left an indelible mark on me and on the colleagues who are making a difference every day. In this time we’re in, though, teachers don’t feel…

Hello, friends. May the 4th began as an internet meme from Star Wars fans. Now it’s a Thing, embraced by The Powers That Be for reasons of selling Star Wars toys and things. And I’m there for it. Sorry, you probably thought I was going to go into an anti-capitalist tirade that exploits nostalgia and…

Hello, friends. Remember back in February how good I felt at the end of vacation? I worked hours and hours on the revising of a novel and got to feel like a full-time writer. I’d hoped for something similar this past week. It didn’t happen. Some of it was things that needed doing around the…

Hello, friends. You ever have the feeling that everything’s unraveling and there’s no way to stop it, but when you try to find evidence of the unraveling, you can’t find any? I mean, globally (or nationally), yeah, it’s coming apart. I’m talking on a more personal level. There’s a feeling that’s something’s coming undone but…

Hello, friends. If you’re a faithful subscriber to Gauthic Times, you may have noticed this is late. If you’re like me and only have a tenuous grasp on time, then you may not have noticed that this newsletter is a day late, in which case this whole opening is a waste of time. But here…