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Margaret's March Nearly Monthly News!
March 31, 2024
The Nearly Monthly News Marches on with the last edition we'll see before the next total solar eclipse passes over the United States. What does that mean for...
Margaret's February Nearly Monthly News!
February 29, 2024
Happy February! The shortest month is a little longer this year, but that's no excuse for a lengthy intro. On to the news! From My Desk In keeping with our...
Margaret's January Nearly Monthly News!
January 31, 2024
It's January! The new year has begun, the rains have come to Southern California, and as of this writing, I am both gainfully employed and doing my best to...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - December 2023
December 31, 2023
I nearly called this edition of the newsletter: "Margaret's Nearly Monthly Annual Wrap Up," but decided to err on the side of grammatical caution. Looking...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - Nov 2023
November 27, 2023
Hello, and welcome to the November Nearly monthly news. Let's kick off with one last labor update because: The SAG-AFTRA strike has ended! So happy for my...
September/October - Margaret's Nearly Monthly News
October 13, 2023
So... September got away from me, and since October isn't looking any less eventful, I'm going to see if I can get this update out before there's even more...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News: July/Aug Edition!
August 5, 2023
It's Barbenheimer's world, and we just live in it. I saw Barbie first, in a theater full of people of all genders dressed in their pink best, and Oppenheimer...
Margaret's June Nearly Monthly News!
June 30, 2023
Hey there, hope your summer is off to a great start! As I write this, the WGA is still on strike, and I have a feeling I'll be reporting the same at the...
Margaret's May 2023 Nearly Monthly News
May 31, 2023
Thank you Jennifer Jacob, friend of the NMN, who heeded the call in the last newsletter and sent lovely photos of some May flowers at the Brooklyn Botanic...
Having a Moment for Margaret's April 2023 Nearly Monthly News
April 28, 2023
It's April! Sometimes people ask me why I didn't stick with multiplatform/interactive storytelling after The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Welcome to Sanditon....
Margaret's March Nearly Monthly News (2023 Edition)
March 30, 2023
Welcome new subscribers! I was all set to open this month's newsletter by talking about how rainy it's been in Los Angeles lately, but then I checked the...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - Feb 2023
February 28, 2023
Hello all, and welcome new subscribers! Glad to have you here during this rainy Los Angeles winter. No blizzards at this altitude, but let's just say my...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - January 2023
January 31, 2023
January has been a quiet month here at the Nearly Monthly News. As Hollywood still reels from the aftershocks of the WB/Discovery merger and braces for WGA...
Happy New Year from Margaret's Nearly Monthly News (Dec 2022)
December 31, 2022
December again, and time for the Nearly Monthly News annual wrap up! But first of all, thank you for subscribing and for your support. I started this...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - Nov 2022
November 29, 2022
Oh November: my birthday month! Also the month of Thanksgiving, National Novel Writing, and of asking each other: "Is Twitter dead yet?" Twitter, either a...
Nearly Monthly News: The October 2022 Spooky Edition!
October 31, 2022
Welcome to our latest spooooky edition of the Nearly Monthly News. I loved Halloween when I was a kid. This is in spite of the fact that I was very good at...
Nearly Monthly News - September 2022
September 29, 2022
Where did September go? This month's news is sliding in at the last minute in part because last month's did (and that sort of scheduling tends to become a...
Margaret's August Nearly Monthly News!
August 30, 2022
AHHHHHH! Anyone else need a good primal scream this month? Not sure about where you are, but chez Nearly Monthly News, August has been a month. Starting with...
July 2022 Nearly Monthly News
July 28, 2022
Happy July! For me, this had been a summer of nostalgia. I spent several weeks visiting a friend from college and her family in a city I used to live in, I...
June's Nearly Monthly News
June 17, 2022
Welcome to June! Summer is here in Los Angeles (does it ever really leave?), and I'm balancing deadlines against the feeling I still get—despite not having...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - May 2022
May 23, 2022
Happy May, and welcome to the 6th edition of the Nearly Monthly news. I've been doing this for half a year? Inconceivable! This month marked my first visit...
Nearly Not April Nearly Monthly News
April 26, 2022
Hello! It's April (barely). I'll admit, if not for Twitter, I probably would have missed the fact that this particular April marks the 10th Anniversary of...
The Nearly Monthly News Marches On!
March 14, 2022
Pfew! The year marches on and it's time for another newsletter. Happy Pi Day! This month, in addition to Pi(e) day, GM's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and Purim,...
February: What's Going On?
February 14, 2022
"Do not rely on February . . . The sun in this month begets a headache like an angel slapping you in the face." ―Anne Sexton Happy February! However yours is...
Where did January go?
January 26, 2022
New year, new month, new newsletter. Hello again! I hope you had a good holiday, whatever you celebrate this time of the year. For a hot minute in December,...
Hello and Welcome!
December 21, 2021
So, remember that time you visited margaretdunlap.com, reached out through the contact link, and beside the checkbox that said, "If I ever started a...