I went to the Awards Ceremony--Essays and Short Stories

That's how I missed the Sat. news dump.

But the ceremony itself was great.

20 awardees out of 400 entries. 5%.

I read my essay On Exile.

4-5 people came up to me and congratulated me after.

A number of women wore ethnic dress, including me.

My Uber was driving a Tesla!

But he looked to be from Ethiopia. It was a smaller Tesla. I cld't tell where the other awardees were from--but all had beautiful names and were very accomplished. Everyone had a chance to read their entire 2 page winning entries.

1/2 were HS students.

Judges did a great job.

Food was lovely.

I cld not be happier that at least my neighborhood is liberal

We each got published version of our collected pieces.

This morning I had Internet problems but always fixed just as I get desperate and call in Fixer.

But then I resolved it on my own, sometimes I can't tell exactly how.

RFA where I worked 1997-2001 and was elbowed out by junta-inclined Burmese language boss, is among shuttered on Sat.

Lot of fence sitters there.

Well, my tell all book can be written now.

It was too painful to write earlier.

kmk

3-15-2025.