Dear Seagoat is now being co-hosted by The Tusk. Head over to check the column out in its new digs, plus read great other things about pop culture, leaving San Francisco, and PJ Harvey as literary fodder. Dear Seagoat, I want to be a poet. I want to teach community college and maybe workshops while livingContinue reading “Dear Seagoat #10: Don’t Be a Poet, Be a Balls-To-The-Wall Poet!”
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Dear Seagoat #9: Must a Retired Helper Fish Help More?
Dear Seagoat is now being co-hosted by The Tusk. Head over to check the column out in its new digs, plus read great other things about pop culture, leaving San Francisco, and PJ Harvey as literary fodder. Also Dear Seagoat is out of questions! Send yours and keep the column going! Dear Seagoat, I haveContinue reading “Dear Seagoat #9: Must a Retired Helper Fish Help More?”
Dear Seagoat #8: How To Climb A Mountain In Good Company
Dear Seagoat is now being co-hosted by The Tusk. Head over to check the column out in its new digs, plus read great other things about pop culture, leaving San Francisco, and PJ Harvey as literary fodder. Dear Seagoat, Every year, I face a quandary that exemplifies the biggest ongoing issue in my long termContinue reading “Dear Seagoat #8: How To Climb A Mountain In Good Company”
Dear Seagoat #7: Problem Dads, Fix-It Moms
Dear Seagoat is now being co-hosted by The-Tusk.com. Head over to check the column out in its new digs, plus read great other things about pop culture, leaving San Francisco, and PJ Harvey as literary fodder. Dear Seagoat, My 10 1/2 year old daughter is just about to start middle school. I have been a singleContinue reading “Dear Seagoat #7: Problem Dads, Fix-It Moms”
Dear Seagoat #6: Ship Seeks Dinghy for Good Times, Big $$$
Readers! Dear Seagoat is running low on questions! Have a relationship, career, creativity, sexuality or emotional issue burning a hole in your pocket? Ask now and let the planets patch that shiznit up! Dear Seagoat, I’m one tough lady with too many opportunities. I’ve had my own business for 25 years, but when theContinue reading “Dear Seagoat #6: Ship Seeks Dinghy for Good Times, Big $$$”
Dear Seagoat #5: East Coast Fish, West Coast Waters
Dear Seagoat, I’m coming up on my one-year anniversary in California after leaving tighter-knit communities on the East Coast and overseas to start grad school. The past year has been a complete disaster for me personally – I’ve never lived anywhere this long and had no friends, no dating life and zero understanding of theContinue reading “Dear Seagoat #5: East Coast Fish, West Coast Waters”
Dear Seagoat #4: Crying in the Bathroom (A Rite of Passage)
Dear Seagoat, I am a queer writer living in a not-queer-friendly home, which is home nonetheless. I just graduated from college, so I’m at this weird turning point in my life where I can’t seem to make any decisions. (Why those are connected I have no idea.) Here are the situations that are strangling meContinue reading “Dear Seagoat #4: Crying in the Bathroom (A Rite of Passage)”
Dear Seagoat #3: Idea-Drowned Writers and Other Pisces Problems
Dear Seagoat, I’m a writer who isn’t writing. I don’t know what’s going on in my life right now. My mind is going in a zillion directions. What I most want is to be a writer… But I keep ending up in wonderful other adventures – I’m having such great dates, I started a businessContinue reading “Dear Seagoat #3: Idea-Drowned Writers and Other Pisces Problems”
Dear Seagoat #2: Love Trauma-Rama
Dear Seagoat! I am just starting a new relationship. It seems to be going wonderfully. Lots of flirting, lots of sweetness. But then, alas, I looked back at an old relationship that started around June 2012, and ended, flamingly! in fall of 2013. The new relationship seems nice but I’m scared it’s just likeContinue reading “Dear Seagoat #2: Love Trauma-Rama”
Dear Seagoat: “Her boyfriend is the jerk, but I’m getting punished.” — Virgo Under Duress
**Astro-friends: Dear Seagoat is a new site feature. Kind of Dear Abby meets Savage Love, but with more planets. If you have a question, send it to seagoatastrology@gmail.com along with your birth info (time/date/location) and I’ll happily take it for a spin.** Dear Seagoat, A good friend of mine has a boyfriend that I absolutelyContinue reading “Dear Seagoat: “Her boyfriend is the jerk, but I’m getting punished.” — Virgo Under Duress”