Pat Detmer

Pat Detmer is an award-winning humor columnist, copywriter, and speaker who has been published in newspapers, including the Journal American, Seattle Times and The Whidbey Island Marketplace. She has also appeared in Newsweek and wrote a column for the Newcastle News. She's won or placed in fiction contests, most of them having to do with speed … Read More

Writer

Pat was born in Quincy, Illinois, and until her twenties, lived in small rural towns in the Prairie State. She attended Quincy University and received a Bachelor's Degree in English. Unfortunately, when she tried to find a job as an English teacher, she discovered that everyone knew how to speak … Laugh More

Speaker

Pat Detmer speaking at Westin

Pat is an award-winning speaker and is available for speaking engagements. She specializes in humor and inspiration. Pat took a stand-up class. She passed her finals at a bar. Contact Pat to discuss a speaking engagement via patdetmer@aol.com, or you can call her at 206-295-6025 … See More

Need Some Laughs?

I've been business blogging for our company on www.thequincygroup.net, posting once a week since June. The blogs are about small business management and brokering, but are (hopefully) amusing as well. Since the COVID stay-at-home/social distancing … [Read more]

The Best-Laid Plans

One of the first things I did when I moved west in ’72 was to visit the planetarium at a local community college. “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” played as the apparatus rose from the floor and the room darkened. It thrilled me. I was also watching a lot of … [Read more]

Cookie Monsters

I’ve been thinking a lot about cookies, in part because they always seem like a good idea, and also because sister Barbie made Mom’s candy cane cookies last Christmas. Mom won a prize for that recipe. Here’s the picture that was on the front page of … [Read more]

Spillers Anonymous

I rarely spilled on myself after graduating from the high chair. That is until I turned 60, when I became the Niagara Falls of spillage.What is it about a clean, pressed white blouse or shirt and colorful greasy food? There's a magnetic attraction … [Read more]

Cleaning Bigwig

When I was still living at home in my mid-twenties, I bought a furry, life-like puppet that was 24 inches from ear-tips to back feet and named him "Bigwig" to honor "Watership Down," my favorite book at the time. It was a ridiculous and costly … [Read more]