About Pat Detmer
Pat is an award-winning humor writer who looks pretty much like her picture on on a good day.
Pat has published columns in the Seattle Times, The Newcastle News, The Eastside Journal, and had a humorous column in The Whidbey Marketplace for four years. She also appeared in Newsweek's "My Turn."
She's won or placed in several fiction contests, most of them having to do with speed (24-hour from topic assignment to finished piece), brevity (100-word and 200-word shorts), or scenarios where the characters are already established and full-blown (3 appearances in Star Trek's Strange New Worlds short story anthologies.)
You can contact Pat through her website: www.PatDetmer.com.
- The Fractured & Abridged Dictionary of Writing & Publishing
- Posted by Pat Detmer on May 6th, 2008
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I've decided to take a break from my ongoing list of Things to Not Do Before You Die (if You ...
- Do not hike in shorts in the desert
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Apr 30th, 2008
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... If you have a tendency to trip and fall This is another helpful missive on what to not do ...
- And don't do this, either
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Apr 19th, 2008
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(Another Thing to Not Do Before You Die If You Can Possibly Help It) I graduated with a Bachelor of ...
- Yet another thing to not do before you die
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Apr 7th, 2008
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(If You Can Possibly Help It) I am not into fashion. About twice a year, I make myself go shopping ...
- Things to not do before you die ...
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Mar 25th, 2008
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(If You Can Possibly Help It) Tired of seeing all the books filled with lists of things to do before ...
- Things to not do before you die ...
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Mar 12th, 2008
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... If you can possibly help it I'm tired of all the books telling me what I have to do ...
- First Class
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Mar 3rd, 2008
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I'm writing this at 30,000 feet. The Sainted One and I are returning to Seattle from our yearly stay in ...
- Bada Boom, Bada Bing, Bada Ouch
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Feb 29th, 2008
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I’m writing this from Palm Springs, California where The Sainted One and I are enjoying our usual sunny respite from ...
- Picture This
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Feb 18th, 2008
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I once purchased lunch with a local columnist at a charity auction, and I was shocked when she walked down ...
- The Daily Lube Job
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Jan 27th, 2008
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I rarely used moisturizing lotion in my youth. I had more moisture than I needed, and had there been a ...
- Resolutions I can keep
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Jan 15th, 2008
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Finally ... finally! ... at fifty-seven I've gotten smart enough to know that there's absolutely no reason to set myself ...
- The Pumpkin Cheesecake Flu
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Jan 3rd, 2008
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Laughing All The Way by Pat Detmer The Pumpkin Cheesecake Flu Lots of folks in the Seattle area got the ...
- Do not try this at home
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Dec 20th, 2007
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I'm not much of a cook. In fact, I'm not much of anything when it comes to that room that ...
- (Fill in the blank) Spotted in 'The Last Supper'!
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Dec 12th, 2007
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It started with the book "The DaVinci Code," which suggested that Michelangelo left messages in his painting of "The Last ...
- Falling off the placemat
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Dec 5th, 2007
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My husband is a Rabbit. I quote from the Chinese Zodiac placemat from our local restaurant: "You are the kind ...
- Goodbye to the Year of the Dress
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Nov 27th, 2007
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Goodbye and good riddance. In about a month, we will be finished with the Year of the Dress. I tried ...
- Two Kinds of People, Part 3
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Nov 8th, 2007
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Continuing with the "two kinds of people in this world" theme, there are two kinds of people in this world: ...
- The Better Way Club
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Oct 16th, 2007
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Continuing with my There Are Two Kinds of People in This World theme: There are two kinds of people in ...
- Two kinds of people
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Oct 5th, 2007
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You hear it all the time: "There are two kinds of people in this world," and then the follow-up of: ...
- Hair Apparent
- Posted by Pat Detmer on Sep 17th, 2007
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Until my mother died, my hair was not my own. I was a share-cropper. I rented out the head space ...