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The Battle

The Battle Here is a free verse style poem I wrote when I was sixteen years old. Here also is a photo of me, teenage Kathleen in my favorite forest green fedora hat. At the bottom of this article you…Read more
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Out West

when Mrs. Graham came out to California bearing the maiden name I never knew she looked out of the train window into the flat stretches of Nebraska and saw a man on a horse with a hat “There‘s The Cowboy”…Read more
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Coming Into Town

Here I am, working on my Western novel, and we find The Rifleman as he rides into a town as a young man I arrived in Dillardtown on a fine evening having crossed a stony river lined by cottonwoods and…Read more
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Japanese Tea Garden

Japanese Tea Garden I spent many years going to the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, writing poetry and observing people. Over the years I wrote down some of the interesting things I heard people saying—the quotes in the…Read more
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We Wowed ‘Em at Bill Cook’s Barn!

Thanks to everyone who helped make the gig at Bill Cook’s Barn an amazing show! Bill says, “Kathleen’s music and her band are top class. Wow! Her songs are diverse, sensitive, powerful and spellbinding.”   Thanks to my smokin’ hot ……Read more