Gail Gauthier
@gailgauthier.bsky.social
Short stories in Stonecoast Review & Literary Mama. Humor in Slackjaw, Belladonna Comedy, Jane Austin's Wastebasket, Frazzled. Essayist. Middle grade writer. More than you want to know at www.gailgauthier.com Still blogging at http://blog.gailgauthier.
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The Reading History Project: What I'll Be Reading in 2026
Reading history is an interest of mine. It probably got started before I was reading much, when I was watching TV Westerns with my father an...
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My #reading project for this year. #readinghistory #History Reading as activism. blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/02/the-...
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
2/30 Thinking About History by Sara Maza
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
2/30 Thinking About History by Sara Maza
February 16, 2026 at 1:10 PM
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
2/30 Thinking About History by Sara Maza
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
2/30 Thinking About History by Sara Maza
Tastyble, the publication that accepted this #essay, "featured" it. Not an award, but it provides more visibility on the Medium platform. #writingcommunity #eating #cooking medium.tastyble.com/how-much-wou...
How Much Would My Spiritual Ancestors Have Spent to Save Some Yogurt?
My guess is less than I did.
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February 16, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Tastyble, the publication that accepted this #essay, "featured" it. Not an award, but it provides more visibility on the Medium platform. #writingcommunity #eating #cooking medium.tastyble.com/how-much-wou...
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
1/30 Behind You Is The Sea Susan Muaddi Darraj
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
1/30 Behind You Is The Sea Susan Muaddi Darraj
February 15, 2026 at 12:58 PM
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
1/30 Behind You Is The Sea Susan Muaddi Darraj
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
1/30 Behind You Is The Sea Susan Muaddi Darraj
The #Reading #History Project Sara Maza Thinking About History "history of history" blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/02/the-...
The Reading History Project: "Thinking About History" by Sarah Maza
I wanted to start my reading history project with some reading about history , which is exactly what Thinking About History by Sarah Maza ...
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February 13, 2026 at 11:28 PM
The #Reading #History Project Sara Maza Thinking About History "history of history" blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/02/the-...
My first #eating #cooking #essay (I need a name for this #writing) was published at Tastyble this morning. It seems to be about #yogurt, but not really. Or maybe it is. #food medium.tastyble.com/how-much-wou...
How Much Would My Spiritual Ancestors Have Spent to Save Some Yogurt?
My guess is less than I did.
medium.tastyble.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM
#writingcommunity The story behind a #tradwife #parody #submissions blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/02/the-...
The Story Behind the Story: Tradwife Lifestyle Parody
Odile on Unsplash My first humor publication of 2026 is I Was an '80s Tradwife . Thank you to Muddy-um for the acceptance. I started subm...
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February 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM
#writingcommunity The story behind a #tradwife #parody #submissions blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/02/the-...
"I hear you guys like to bake bread. Let me tell you about baking bread. I baked so much bread." muddyum.net/i-was-an-80s...
I Was An ’80s Tradwife
You newbies have it made
muddyum.net
February 9, 2026 at 12:06 AM
"I hear you guys like to bake bread. Let me tell you about baking bread. I baked so much bread." muddyum.net/i-was-an-80s...
They let anyone teach Sunday school at our church. Anyone.
This made me snort tea through my nose. Did we have the same life, Gail? Only I was never allowed to teach Sunday school, only work in the nursery! Great piece!
My first #humor publication of the year. This #Tradwife thing looks like a sweet gig compared to what my friends and I were doing. muddyum.net/i-was-an-80s...
February 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM
They let anyone teach Sunday school at our church. Anyone.
Reposted by Gail Gauthier
Oh god this had me laughing. You nailed it.
February 7, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Oh god this had me laughing. You nailed it.
My first #humor publication of the year. This #Tradwife thing looks like a sweet gig compared to what my friends and I were doing. muddyum.net/i-was-an-80s...
I Was An ’80s Tradwife
You newbies have it made
muddyum.net
February 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
My first #humor publication of the year. This #Tradwife thing looks like a sweet gig compared to what my friends and I were doing. muddyum.net/i-was-an-80s...
I was scrolling down, saw the first two lines on this graphic, and said, "Oh, that's got to be Karen."
Amazing what five snow days in a row can help accomplish! #MGLit #LibraryLife
February 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I was scrolling down, saw the first two lines on this graphic, and said, "Oh, that's got to be Karen."
My #reading project for this year. #readinghistory #History Reading as activism. blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/02/the-...
The Reading History Project: What I'll Be Reading in 2026
Reading history is an interest of mine. It probably got started before I was reading much, when I was watching TV Westerns with my father an...
blog.gailgauthier.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
My #reading project for this year. #readinghistory #History Reading as activism. blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/02/the-...
I just published ‘I Educate Myself, Therefore I Act.’ This deals with my Heritage Month #reading last year. I'm beginning a different reading project for this year. baos.pub/i-educate-my...
“I Educate Myself, Therefore I Act.”
My top 7 Heritage Month reads in 2025
baos.pub
January 23, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I just published ‘I Educate Myself, Therefore I Act.’ This deals with my Heritage Month #reading last year. I'm beginning a different reading project for this year. baos.pub/i-educate-my...
I just read a description of someone who was said to be "tireless" in her efforts to do something. And I thought, No, no one is ever going to say that about me. If there's one thing I'm not, it's tireless. About anything.
January 23, 2026 at 12:22 AM
I just read a description of someone who was said to be "tireless" in her efforts to do something. And I thought, No, no one is ever going to say that about me. If there's one thing I'm not, it's tireless. About anything.
I ran into an Applewood Books reprint of a 247-year-old #book on a shelf in a store this weekend. I had bought one in the '90s for research for a book published in 2002. The old book is still available. Mine is out-of-print. blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/01/my-f...
My First 2026 Encounter with History
Today is the birthday of Ethan Allen , the most profane and hardest drinking noise to come out of pre-Revolutionary Connecticut. A legend in...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
I ran into an Applewood Books reprint of a 247-year-old #book on a shelf in a store this weekend. I had bought one in the '90s for research for a book published in 2002. The old book is still available. Mine is out-of-print. blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/01/my-f...
Only home from a #reading, snow, and #meditation retreat for two days and already the relaxation I was feeling is pretty much gone. And only partly because I submitted #Anthropic claims today. #AI blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/01/i-do...
I Don't Think the Retreat Week Bliss Will Be Lasting Much Longer
My yard today. Nice, eh? Today was my first day back at work after returning from my annual reading and frolicking in the snow retreat. I al...
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January 20, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Only home from a #reading, snow, and #meditation retreat for two days and already the relaxation I was feeling is pretty much gone. And only partly because I submitted #Anthropic claims today. #AI blog.gailgauthier.com/2026/01/i-do...
I just took a workshop today that included shapes for stories. Not these, though. Other shapes. So many shapes. #writing
#writers what shape is your story? connecttocompel.com/the-6-shapes...
Blog | Unveiling the 6 Shapes of Story
From ancient myths to modern blockbusters, stories have the power to connect with and compel audiences. But beneath the surface of every narrative lies a hidden structure — a design that gives shape t...
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January 8, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I just took a workshop today that included shapes for stories. Not these, though. Other shapes. So many shapes. #writing
Later this month we head out for our annual #resort #vacation. Yeah, it's just like this. #humor #travel. medium.com/the-haven/mo...
Mountain Lake Resort Timeshares: You’ll Wait All Year to Come Back
Please sign your unit’s guest book and share the magic with the other owners
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January 7, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Later this month we head out for our annual #resort #vacation. Yeah, it's just like this. #humor #travel. medium.com/the-haven/mo...
For 13 years I've been doing an end-of-the-year assessment of my #writing #goals and objectives. You have to be incredibly sunshiny or a real hardass to do this. blog.gailgauthier.com/2025/12/time...
Time Management Tuesday: Recapitulation 2025
Don't you just love assessing yourself? I do, which suggests that I am very easy on myself. I've been doing a recapitulation post related to...
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December 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
For 13 years I've been doing an end-of-the-year assessment of my #writing #goals and objectives. You have to be incredibly sunshiny or a real hardass to do this. blog.gailgauthier.com/2025/12/time...
Just got another #rejection on a #humor #essay. I don't know if I'd say I still believe in it, but I definitely still like it.
Another agent rejection via QueryTracker. Oh well. I still believe in my book. 😊 #WriterSky #AuthorSky
December 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Just got another #rejection on a #humor #essay. I don't know if I'd say I still believe in it, but I definitely still like it.
My last publication this year came on Dec. 23rd. Relating to my #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth reading, #literaryhorror and Stephen Graham Jones baos.pub/a-native-ame...
A Native American Writer Opened My Mind to Literary Horror
And Native American Heritage Month wasn’t purged from the Federal government’s website!
baos.pub
December 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My last publication this year came on Dec. 23rd. Relating to my #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth reading, #literaryhorror and Stephen Graham Jones baos.pub/a-native-ame...
#writers #writingcommunity And everyone! Excited to put the holidays behind you so you can move on to new projects? No, we are not grinches. We are feeling the positive influence of end of the year temporal landmarks #timemanagement #writing blog.gailgauthier.com/2025/12/time...
Time Management Tuesday: Looking Forward to the End of the Holidays Doesn't Mean You Hate Them. It Means You Love Temporal Landmarks.
Last week I got an email from the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio with a link to its spring Zoom writers' workshops . I went through that t...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#writers #writingcommunity And everyone! Excited to put the holidays behind you so you can move on to new projects? No, we are not grinches. We are feeling the positive influence of end of the year temporal landmarks #timemanagement #writing blog.gailgauthier.com/2025/12/time...
By this time of year, I am over Christmas and excited for next month's #writing and writing-type activity. Just went through the @thurberhouse.bsky.social adult workshop offerings the way gardeners go through seed catalogs. #writingcommuity www.thurberhouse.com/adult-writin...
Thurber House — Adult Writing Workshops — Literary Center and James Thurber Museum
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December 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
By this time of year, I am over Christmas and excited for next month's #writing and writing-type activity. Just went through the @thurberhouse.bsky.social adult workshop offerings the way gardeners go through seed catalogs. #writingcommuity www.thurberhouse.com/adult-writin...