CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!

Subject: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:54 AM

Dear Friends,

It is with great pleasure and pride, and with her permission, that I announce to you that our very own Wyo Woman has officially landed the position of

Managing Editor
of
Mother Earth News Magazine!!

In her own words regarding you Mudcatters:

I am interested in having their feedback and story ideas and questions once I get in the saddle there. I do think the Mudcatteers have so very much consistent with Mother Earth that there just has to be some frabjous symbiosis available there ...

Congratulations, KC/WW!! You go, womon!!! I am so happy for you!!!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Amergin
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:57 AM

Sounds great WyoWoman!!! but what the hell is frabjous symbiosis? Oh well, no matter here's a congratulatory hug for ya!! (((((((WW))))))))

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:59 AM

That's the best news! Congratulations and best wishes!
Barb

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: CarolC
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:01 AM

Wow Wyo Woman!!!!

May I touch the hem of your gown?

Congratulations!

Carol

(P.S. My feedback... can they make the paper a little less shiny?)

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:02 AM

Yep...Got the e-mail and couldn't be happier......and better yet, KC will be in KC.......well sorta' anyways.

Love it Pansy!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: wdyat12
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:04 AM

All I can say is WOW!!! You must be one hell of a writer to land that site! Congratulations!!!!

wdyat12

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: wdyat12
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:08 AM

Oh! I almost forgot. I need some help installing a copper coil in my woodstove. No, not for booze. Well...there's a thought....No. I need to get rid of my electric hotwaterheater. I will be looking for your input in Mother Earth News on this subject.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: wdyat12
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:24 AM

Got my Mudcat ears on!

wdyat12

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: alison
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:33 AM

congratulations wyo

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: dwditty
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 02:31 AM

Stop the presses!!! The queen of bubble wrap is now ME at Mother Earth.*G* Really great news. Good things really do happen to good people. Much luck and love.

dw

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: reggie miles
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 03:14 AM

Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane. No, it's Mother Earth News Woman! Under the guise of Wyo Woman, mild mannered Mudcateer, she fights the never ending battle for truth, justice and the Earthy/American way.

Jimmy: "Golly Mother Earth News Woman, what'll be your first big adventure? Is it true you have a secret super identity and can actually bend steel in your bare hands and leap over tall buildings in a single bound? I'll bet you have xray vision too and super hearing. They say your only weakness is the mysterious substance from your home planet called Kraptonite and that you're the last surviving member of your world because it blew up right after your parents sent you to Earth in your own space ship!"

M.E.N. Woman: Jeez Jimmy put a sock in it, you gotta lay off the jo and speakin' of caffeine, be a good kid and go fetch me a double tall latte with extra foam. No, wait a minute, make that a triple mocha with all the trimmings and take it out of petty cash."

Jimmy: "You got it. Right away boss!"

As Jimmy leaves her office, M.E.N. Woman ponders what adventures await her.

Tune in next time boys and girls for another thrilling episode of Mother Earth News Woman!

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Mudlark
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 03:50 AM

Congrats, Whyo Woman!!! I've not yet had the pleasure of meeting you but I am thoroughly impressed. Way to GO!

Nancy

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: BlueJay
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:21 AM

Absolutely the best news I've heard in a long time. dwditty's right. Sometimes good things DO happen to good people, and I can think of no one I'd rather have as Managing Editor of TMEN.
K.C.- I am so glad you'll be near your Mom, which is probably what motivated this sojourn in the first place.
Those of us in Colorado will miss you of course, but our loss is Kansas' gain, like the water flowing down the Arkansas River, by which you once lived. (How's that for a screwed up sentence)?
If you get tired of corn, come back and visit where you can see some sagebrush and scrub oak. Go to it, K.C. I may have to resubscribe.
My best wishes, BlueJay

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:21 AM

WOW, WYO!!!That's great! I haven't seen a copy of MENews in many years- don't even know if I can buy it in Keene, but I'll be on the lookout now. You go, woman!

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Giac
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 07:55 AM

Way to go! What terrific news. Keep us "posted."

Mary

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: MMario
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 08:10 AM

I'm going to have to start buying it again. Heck - may even subscribe.

Congratulations.

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Naemanson
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 08:49 AM

I have to agree with MMario. I'm gonna have to buy it now that I know someone in the driver's seat!

Ideas? I'm sure there will be plenty forthcoming from the old Mudcat circle. How about a column on recycling songs?

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 09:13 AM

WOW ! I mean, WOW ! Congrats.

I've been here about a month and I still am thrilled each day that I find I'm participating in discussions with such talent and celebrity.

Must admit I've never read it but, as soon as the snowstorm subsides, I'm going to pick up a copy.

BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!!!!

gnu

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Peg
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 09:55 AM

Congratulations! I concur with MMario and Naemanson, I must start reading this again!

As someone who kinda works on the fringes in this industry, lemme tell ya getting editing positions like this is not easy...which means Wyo Woman ROCKS!

Do us proud and spread the word; we must do more to save the planet!

peg

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:23 AM

Fantastic!!!

Major congrats. Likewise, I'll have to start reading it on a more regular basis again. Maybe re-subscribe.

Bat Goddess (and Curmudgeon)
who leave a small footprint in New Hampshire (composting toilet; heat with wood, organic gardening & deer skulls on the wall)

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Paul G.
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:29 AM

From the Land of Flowers, where more of her citizens tear her down than build her up...heart felt congratulations Wyo. Perhaps you will be able to help the few of us conservationsists down here teach the lessons that need teaching.

Paul

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:31 AM

Hey, I thought you wanted a regular DAY JOB; this... is un-be-focking-leevable!

Lucky staff.... what a time they are in for!!!

But are you sure this is a big enough hat for you to wear? I mean, you know, you can do this with one hand tied behind your back. So keep using that other one for more and more music! And this would mean..... what?

~Susan

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:54 AM

Settin' on the ole back porch strumming that gittar in the face of tornados and such.

So what are we gonna call her now? Don't say Kan Woman. Mebbe Toto Baby? Aunt_Emm_eee? Never mind...something tells me Kansas isn't gonna be in Kansas anymore shortly!

A_who_sends_whoopdidoo_congrats_to_WyoWoman

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:04 AM

Congratualtions WyoWoman, I hope it goes well for you. I do however want to pick you up on:

"I do think the Mudcatteers have so very much consistent with Mother Earth".

As it happens, from what I have found on the internet, I think I would agree with much of the content of Mother Earth but I view Mudcat as a group of individuals with often very differing views and opinions and I am not keen on the idea of being a "Madcatteer", presumably with some pre-defined ideas.

Jon (A miserable git and an individual)

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:08 PM

A--

Hafta call her Earth Woman fer now if you gonna screw wid her name I think. Still not a big enough name tho for that one.

UniWoman.

~S~

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:10 PM

Yeh...yeh......says the ole Biggus Mickus Maximus puffing up his already enormous chest........yeh.........that's my gal..........She sent me an email several days ago.......I figured I would let her do her own announcement........that's my friend KC folks, yep she's the Managing Editor of Mother Earth News......Oh yeah, I am connected........yeh, yeh. LOL. Way to go WW Maximus.

All the best,

Big Mick

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:11 PM

No wait-- it's coming now--

Yodel-Edit, Yodel-Edit, Yodel-Lady-Who-oooo.

'Course the smart folks'll be callin' her BOSS-LADY.

~S~

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:15 PM

Paw and Cletus have been avid readers of "Mother Earth" out of necessity. It was stupid I know, but when they were pestering me for "sumpin' ta reed" I gave them my bundled collection of old copies. I had no idea at the time they would use them to decorate their outhouse. I must admit it is more entertaining than staring at a wasp's nest in the corner, although you are wise to keep an eye on that too.

Unfortunately, the two of them have picked up on several ideas and projects that "Mother Earth" detailed and happen to be on the wall across from hole #2. I suppose they could foul up even the best of ideas and directions, but their confusion over compost and sewage and the resultant feud when Ol' Man Rafferty discovered the additions to his compost heap..................just too gruesome, not to mention disgusting, for words. On the other hand, Rafferty's rhubarb did take first place at the Fairfield County Fair.

I hope they find something new to decorate with this time since the new jonny is currently under construction. Two walls were blown out of the old one from an explosion, listed by the local VFD as of "unknown origin," although it happened shortly after one of their "All-Nighters" of roast pork, pinto beans, and Iron City. I am concerned that the stack of papers they have sitting on the stoop is intended for wallpaper. Neither of them is up to a daily dose of the "National Enquirer."

Spaw

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: KT
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:50 PM

Heartiest congratulations, WW!!! I'm headed out today to pick up a copy so I can subscribe!! (With all the new subscriptions you're generating, they'll be asking themselves, "Why didn't we hire her sooner??!!!" All the best! KT

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:00 PM

This is VERY BIG NEWS! Congratulations WYO WOMAN!!! I hope this won't curtail your Mudcat activities too much.

All the best,
Dan Milner

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Dave Swan
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:07 PM

CONSTRAGULASHUNS, pal.

We're gonna get you a visor and some black sleeve protectors and garters.

Where you wear them is your business.

Great news!

Dave

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Rex
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:27 PM

Congrats from here too, WW. That's a fine bunch to be working with. TMEN has long been an inspiration to me.

Rex

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: hesperis
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:29 PM

WOW!!!!! WOOO-HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fantastic. I'll be flipping through it more often, that's for sure.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:44 PM

Dear WyoWoman, Here's wishing you good times, fulfillment, enjoyment, in your new job. It's a fine magazine- I think I have the first issue somewhere! Once I subscribed for a lifetime membership, but then I seem to remember they went out of business (or almost?) and I never got it again. Glad to hear Mother Earth is still going strong, and we know you'll make her even better. Jean Ritchie

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: mousethief
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:46 PM

I knew you could do anything, Wyo. I'm sure you'll be the best editor they've ever had, and make us all proud of you!

Alex

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Bert
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 01:58 PM

Wow! that's bloody great. Well done Wyomeluv!

I'll have to subscribe again. I gave it up some years ago because of their one sided view of the nuclear industry.

Now that you are driving I know we can expect reasoned discussion and rational arguments on all issues.

Luvya,

Bert.

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 02:47 PM

Big Mick, I kept bugging her about when she was gonna tell all the Mudcatters. Last night, she finally gave me the go ahead, 'cause, as she put it, she wasn't one to "toot her own horn." I am heartily glad she let me do it for her!

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Hollowfox
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 03:08 PM

Alll Riight! I love good news! Congratulations.

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Peter T.
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 03:25 PM

START THE PRESSES!!!

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 03:27 PM

Congratulations! Is bubble wrap environmentally acceptable?

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: wdyat12
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 03:48 PM

Bubble wrap got sucked up into the cooling intake of my envirnomentally unfriendly outboard and killed it, so, from where I sit dead in the water, it is.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:30 PM

Finally got time to sit down and tune back in to Mudcatland. Thank you all with all my heart for your good wishes and congratulations. (And no, Jon, you don't have to be anything you don't want to be. I should have said "some" Mudcatteers. Sorry.)

We'll have to investigate the environmental okey-dokey-ness of bubblewrap, if it's only used for clothing. I mean, I'm thinkin' that would actually be a good thing, getting it out of landfills and outboard motors and into the workaday wardrobes of men and women of all shapes and sizes ... ummmm ... unnnnh ...

nivver mind

Just for the sake of clarity and humility, I want to let y'all know that I'm not the big cheese at Mother. We have a publisher and a new editor-in-chief and I'm the next one down the rung. But it is a major coup and I am still completely in the clouds about it. I start in two weeks, so much of my thinking for the next little while is going to be about getting myself relocated and finding the perfect little Kansas farmhouse within a comfortable, yet challenging, bike ride of the office. Hmm. wonder if I'll be able to pull THAT off ... Then, we'll get to work on the content. The core of the magazine will remain much the same, but we will be working on making it more contemporary and bringing new readers into the fold.

I certainly intend to still have time for music. I just got a new keyboard with which I can allegedly record MIDI files and about which I am utterly clueless. I had thought to spend some time getting acquainted with it and learning as much as I can about song-writing, but other matters seem to be shaping up to take precedence. We shall see. I just have this image of me sitting on my farmhouse porch in my jeans with my feet propped up on the porch rail and my guitar on my lap, plunking meaningfully on my usual three chords as the Kansas sun goes down and the sound of little possums hammering and swearing little possum cusswords drifts up from the composting outhouse ...

Y'all come set a spell if'n' you can ...

And, as I told Amos, I think the name's going to remain WyoWoman. Once I get one of these my multiple personalities set, I pretty much want to stick with it.

WW, Managing Mother

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: wdyat12
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:40 PM

Now about that copper coil in my woodstove...

wdyat12

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:52 PM

Hey, Wyo, I'm proud of you, although I was hoping you would move your beautiful voice closer to California. Best of luck to you.
-Joe Offer-

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Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:59 PM

WW,MM- congratulations! I am so impressed- but not surprised. Hope it's everything you want it to be!

Ebbie

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Mark Clark
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:01 PM

Wonderful news. Congratulations! I know your presence will add a great deal to the magazine.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Biskit
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 05:20 AM

Wyo Wo-mom, Darlin' I am so proud of you I could jus' abut POP! -Biskit-

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Callie
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 08:33 AM

big congrats from this end!

Callie

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 12:32 PM

WyoWoman, a giant WELCOME to the Heartland! Kudos and congratulations!

Lin

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Morticia
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:26 PM

Lots of congrats,KC....never seen the mag ( U.S only?) but I bet it'll be wonderfuller with you in charge.

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Susan from California
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 09:06 PM

YeeeeeeeHaw! I'm one of those who used to subscribe, maybe I'll have to make a point to find it again. Congrats, and i think gardening may be a bit easier in Kansas than Wyoming (but I've been wrong :-)before!)

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 09:40 PM

Heartiest congratulations. Given the audacity and destructive potential of the current administration, you have a difficult yet glorious task ahead of you.

Go for it---and I, for one, am with you.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 04:24 AM

Congrats from me too (late again as usual)
RtS

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 01:49 PM

Congrats, Wyo -

What a great gig!

-chanteyranger

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:45 PM

Hey back atcha. Yes, I think gardening will be substantially easier in Kansas than in Wyoming. It's the presence of fleas, ticks and chiggers that has me a little twitchy, so to speak. I vowed never again to live in humidity, after 17 years in the desert. Now my face is going to break out for six weeks, readjusting. And my dog and cat will have to wear flea collars again. Sigh. I suppose some sacrifices must be made.

*Lin: where in Kansas are you? *Art: I know. The task is daunting. Yet, should it be? I mean, how much handwriting on how many walls will it take? * Wydat12: Let me take that under advisement and get back to you ... All I can think of is "Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil ... "

Oh yeay, oh yeay!!!!!

ww

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Tone d' F
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 09:20 PM

Congrats... Way to go

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 11:28 PM

WyoWoman, they now have once per month, one drop on the back of the neck flea repellent which my frineds back east have said works really well.

It also helps to feed them garlic and brewer's yeast, mixed in with their food. I used to get a specific product at the health food store, mighta been called PetGuard, can't remember. That's been the main reason I haven't wanted to go back to New England, at least the southern part...humidity, fleas, and Lyme's disease ticks!**BG**

Hey, maybe that'll have to be one of the first articles you hire out, eh?

You are gonna do SO good!!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: CONGRATS WYO WOMAN-Mng Editor!!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 11:54 PM

!! neato! many congratulations...and Kansas can be just fine!...I lived in Wichita for many years...and in Lawrence for 3 years...but I'm afraid that a little farmhouse within bicycle distance of KC will be a neat trick! Good luck!