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Gauthic Times #101 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or Heroes When We Need Them: A Holiday Musing

Hello, friends! This past week was The Longest Week In The School Year. The week before Christmas or Winter Vacation. A full five days took roughly five months to pass. But here I am on the other side and I have a full two-week break, which is unheard of these days. Anyway, let’s me get […]

Gauthic Times #100 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or The Room Where It Happens & Health Insurance Horrors

Hello, friends! This week has been busy and will only sort of calm down later today, after my family and I come back from seeing Hamilton. It’s playing in nearby Providence, Rhode Island, and we got my 12-year-old tickets for her birthday last month. I’m excited because I’ve never seen a Broadway show before (if […]

Gauthic Times #99 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or Hello, There, and a List

Hello, friends! What a strange week this has been, but also a good one. At work, I was roped into helping do something for the school that I quite enjoyed. My boss got a substitute for me so I could work on the project and it made me see–even more–that I thrive in a situation […]

Gauthic Times #98 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or Writing, Teaching, & the Ego

Hello, friends. I sat at the table this Thanksgiving with Pamela and G, a plate full of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, and cranberry sauce, almost all drowned in gravy. There was a roll ready to be made into a small sandwich that would get dipped into gravy. I looked around, happy to be […]

Gauthic Times #97 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or Getting Yelled At for Fun & Profit…or At Least One of Those

Hello, friends. Have you seen the news? I haven’t. Not really. Why bother? I will stay informed in small doses but mainly I can’t bear the shitshow. This past week has been all sorts of crazy with basketball practices, teaching, Open House, and trying to get through life. I’m going to write about something that […]

Gauthic Times #96 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or Words & Nightmares

Hello, friends. Another stellar week in the Bizarro Universe. Not sure how things got here and don’t really care at this point. This week was amazingly mundane if you ignored the chilling spectre of what’s to come. We’re winding down on the first trimester of school in our district and I have a bunch of […]

Gauthic Times #95 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or True Terror & No Empathy

Hello, friends. Last week I wrote: Oh, and there’s an election this week that will decide the fate of the United States. We’ll either wake up on Wednesday with the plan to continue democracy or with the knowledge that we’re about to go full authoritarianism. Either way, there’ll be violence, lies, and we’ll be one […]

Gauthic Times #94 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or Life & Writing

Hello, friends. Every week I open with how busy the previous week has been, often inserting that there was a lot of bullshit and perhaps a tinge of disdain for the mediocrity and foolishness of some of those around me and the way the world has become a satire of itself. I have no plans […]

Gauthic Times #93 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or Feeling Imposturous

Hello, friends! Last week took about a month to pass with everything going on. Lots of bullshit mixed in with some really good stuff. It has been a little crazy but here we are, so let’s go! Welcome to the 93rd installment of Gauthic Times, the newsletter about my writing, my life, and feeling like […]

Gauthic Times #92 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or Climbing Back Onto the Shelf

Hello, friends! Here we are again after another busy week. Two coworkers were sick this week and I started not feeling great Thursday night. Luckily, I took quick action, took the second half of the day off yesterday to rest, and am feeling better today. Still tired but I don’t have the fear of being […]