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Brown Shoes in a Roomful of Tuxedos

Brown Shoes in a Roomful of Tuxedos

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Pat Whitty
Sep 27, 2023
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It’s Friday afternoon, and I’ve arrived at the El Dorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, NM to attend the Writer’s Room Retreat. I’ve had some misgivings about attending this event because I thought I would be surrounded by professional, published writers, and I would feel like George Goebel on the Tonight Show in 1969, as he sat with Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, …

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