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Kate Mohler
- Location
- Chandler, Arizona, USA
- Birthday
- May 03
- Title
- English Instructor
- Company
- Mesa Community College
- Bio
- I'm from Minnesota, but have lived in Wisconsin, UP Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington State, and Alaska. Now Arizona is home. I have a B.A. in English from Bemidji State University in Minnesota (um...go Beavers!) and an M.F.A. in creative writing (Arizona State, '94). I teach English at Mesa Community College in Arizona. Besides teaching, I write, read, bond with my cats Sara and Lucy and Leo, listen to music, tackle home projects, and travel when I can. Love a good roadtrip, but always looking for a reason to fly away. I am about to purchase my first camping equipment.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The Ecology of Lace
May 21, 2013 11:58AM - Nipples of Knowledge
May 12, 2013 02:44PM - In the Stinkhole
May 06, 2013 06:28PM - Three Times Fifteen
May 04, 2013 03:34PM - David Sedaris Made Me Do It
April 27, 2013 11:37AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Hi! I have never read
"Border Collie", but I'm sure
I should
have.
Tha…”
March 20, 2013 12:44AM - “Thanks for the comments,
James. I am liking this
permission
thing.”
October 29, 2012 12:59PM - “The Optometrists'
Conspiracy.”
October 20, 2012 10:29PM - “Okay James...Let's see
what happens here. ;-)”
June 11, 2012 03:00PM - “Thank all of you for
your comments! I didn't think
this was
going to be a very
p…”
June 02, 2012 04:30PM
Kate Mohler's Links
The Gray Area
The semester is finally over: I’ve submitted final grades for a jillion students, I’ve put everything that had anything to do with Spring Semester 2012 away, and I can turn now to my future: gearing up to leave for Minnesota next week, and prepping for my summer classes.… Read full post »
Not Yet a Hobgoblin
Life has been so surreal lately that I expect a hobgoblin to
round the corner at any moment, hand me a bag of McDonald’s
food and skitter off to sweep my patio. Or maybe that actually
happened.
I know this is because I’m sleep deprived after… Read full post »
Broken
Today is Leo’s three-week birthday, the day he’s supposed to cross more milestones: using his litter box instead of me and my t-shirt and a warm Q-tip, eating gruel instead of sucking on a bottle. So many directions and anti-directions are on the Internet and to be… Read full post »
Beyond the Gruel
Not Yet a Cat
American Kitten
Exhausted after getting up twice every night for ten nights in a row to feed my tiny, starving, penniless and constipated kitten Leo, I call one of my sisters in Minnesota for comic relief.
“Dick Clark died today,” I say, after our usual… Read full post »
Walk the Walk
Easter Connection
Does anyone remember the Super Bowl of 1996? I do. I was working at Arizona State University, making peanuts teaching our future leaders. I could afford my apartment, gas for my car, and food. If one majorly bad thing had happened during that time—if… Read full post »
Easter Connection
Does anyone remember the Super Bowl of 1996? I do. I was working at Arizona State University, making peanuts teaching our future leaders. I could afford my apartment, gas for my car, and food. If one majorly bad thing had happened during that time—if… Read full post »
Night Eaters
Adopt a Pet
Research Monkey
God has smote me with cystic acne, what can I say? But other than the occasional whopper, my complexion stays clear, so I end up walking around sporting a red clown nose next to my own, and sometimes on my forehead. They grow so large that… Read full post »
Better Be Quiet
Traffic School
Anniversary
Ten years ago today, I was getting married in a beautiful garden at a fancy resort. Probably at the very moment you’re reading this, I was either saying “I do” or hoping the mockingbird would pipe down or wishing my new step-son would look up or regretting… Read full post »
On Being Verklempt
When I was just a child of 21, I became romantically involved with a man who was 18 years old than me. Soon we were living together at his house in the woods, on a lake, in our home state of Minnesota. I knew exactly
…
Siblings for Barry
I moved into this house six years ago and was still unpacking when the City decided to rip up all the old pipes in my neighborhood and replace them with new ones. Base camp was in my backyard, where city workers would sit on my cinder block… Read full post »
Easy Writer
I had lunch yesterday with Jim Cervantes, a retired colleague—a poet, teacher, and former English department renegade—who is now pre-diabetic, not the sexiest adjective to add to that list, but hey, we all got somethin’. Jim’s doctor now has him counting carbs, which Jim d… Read full post »
My Roofmate
It’s a Sunday, and for many Sundays over many years I would put my grading aside, powder my nose, throw on whatever I’d been wearing the night before and dash out the door so I could drive the ten minutes it took to get from my house to… Read full post »
The Right Thing To Do
I know I’m not supposed to be shopping at Walmart. The employees there don’t make squat, they can’t unionize to make more squat, and if you believe in shopping local, you’d have to travel to China to buy most of what Walmart sells…right? I mean, only… Read full post »
Guns or Firecrackers?
Damages
Since it’s springtime in Arizona, I went to Home Depot yesterday for some yard and gardening supplies: potting soil, pansies, a gnome. I also needed to make an adult purchase: a wheelbarrow. My dad had told me several years ago that I wouldn’t have the strength… Read full post »
The Fourth Little Pig
The Heat Is On
An old friend came to visit me yesterday—an unusually cold day in Arizona, not even 70 degrees. We sat in my warm, cozy living room drinking tea, and we would have gossiped, but since she’s in a relationship and I’m not, she has grown kids and I… Read full post »
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