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Sep.02.2009 - 12:59 pm
In Which I Have Mixed Feelings That I No Longer Go "Back To School"
September means they're back out on the streets,School buses lumber back to school. It's fall:A season's ended. Something each child meetsIs this fate: playtime's over. I recallA...
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Sep.02.2009 - 12:41 pm
In Which I Have Mixed Feelings That I No Longer Go "Back To School"
September means they're back out on the streets,School buses lumber back to school. It's fall:A season's ended. Something each child meetsIs this fate: playtime's over. I recallA...
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Aug.26.2009 - 2:12 pm
Bad Manners In Love and Online
I am a single girl who feels a bit ambiguous about the ongoing desirability of this state. I love the freedom and the lack of smelly socks to pick up off the floor, but on...
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Jul.20.2009 - 7:38 am
Sonnet madness!
In December of 2008 I had an idea for a New Year's Resolution. I would write one Shakespearean sonnet every day in 2009. I was largely inspired by this by an end-of-the-year story...
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Writing

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Poem: Kleenpocalypse, or How It's NICE to Cry For Once
Poem: He Should Have Been Secretary of State Anyway
Poem: Chicken Soup with Orzo is not Local Food

Audio & Video

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Audio: Kate of Mind #4 - Science, Skepticism and Sillness
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Audio: Kate of Mind Podcast #3 - Ewwww, Sonnets!
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Audio: Kate of Mind Podcast # 2 - Sorta, Kinda Literary
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Comments from Kate

Sep.02.2009 - 1:14 pm
In response to: In Which I Have Mixed Feelings That I No Longer Go "Back To School"
OK
A twitter friend helped me out with the formatting. Sheesh.
Sep.02.2009 - 1:02 pm
In response to: In Which I Have Mixed Feelings That I No Longer Go "Back To School"
Formatting of above entry
This is a sonnet. Line breaks are important. Why can I not get Red Room's template to respect the line breaks? I have...
Aug.26.2009 - 8:03 pm
In response to: Bad Manners In Love and Online
That's good
I do try to enjoy being single. It's just that every once in a while I wonder what I've done so wrong that I'm not like...
Aug.26.2009 - 6:33 pm
In response to: Bad Manners In Love and Online
True, true
I prefer meeting people in person but my local dating pool is miniscule and unsuitable so I've branched out. Now,...
Jan.25.2009 - 8:37 pm
In response to: Hey! Word Origins, As Such...
I've been meaning to read
I've been meaning to read some Galbraith ever since he turned up in the seat next to me at a performance of Philoctetes...
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About Kate

Kate Sherrod is a fifth generation Wyoming native who ran away to the East Coast for about ten years before returning home. Once back in the small town of Saratoga, WY, she immediately plunged into local politics and the press, soaked in both for a while, and...
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Causes Kate Sherrod Supports

National Novel Writing Month, National Public Radio (two stations - KUWR/Laramie, WY and KUNC - Greeley, CO), Wyoming Association of Municipalites, Wyoming...

Kate’s Favorite Books

An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future (Robert D. Kaplan); The Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe); Neuromancer (William Gibson); Nostromo (Joseph...