(Author’s note: So it seems I won third prize in the 2024 Bethesda Magazine Essay Contest, and will be reading the bronze medalist at their Local Writer’s Showcase this Friday night at 7 at the Hyatt Regency in, you guessed it, Bethesda. It’s a shortened, 500-word version of an essay posted here a while back about how much I hate to shave. It’s a free event and all are welcome, but no heckling the first- and second-place finishers, no matter how much better my essay is than theirs. The flyer for the event appears at the end of today’s post.)
And congrats on placing in the Local Writers Showcase!!
I’m 100% with you on the gnocchi, Jonathan!