Margot ('70) Knight Margot Haliday Knight

checking around--saw note from Bob Bosler

Divorced, now married!

Sept 14, 2011

After checking out the on-line dating sites (which I wrote a play, The Funnel of Love, about!), I signed up for It's Just Lunch and met a smart funny man--Nick-- who lives by serindipity and laughter.

I left full-time work on July 31, 2020. We have a storage shed and car in Gig Harbor, WA but do not own a home and are full-time travelers. Hawaii, Croatia, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, South America, a world cruise (and another one booked). Our preference is to stay in places 3-8 weeks at a time. We are now on our way to Japan for 4 months.

Eight professional jobs in 43 years--all in public history or arts administration. Pullman, WA to Olympia, WA to Washington, DC to Boise, Idaho to Raleigh, NC to Orlando to Woodside, CA. My life is about art 24/7. For nearly 10 years I directed a 583 acre artists community in the mountains south of SF, Djerassi Resident Artists Program which hosted 70+ artists annually.

Nick and I married in 2011. My advice? Marry a happy person.

What else? I love doing nothing now. Felt so driven for so many years but happy just to travel and read now.

I wrote a few plays, sang in a cabaret, narrated The Night Before Christmas with the Orlando Philharmonic, competed in a celebrity ballroom competition. Travel as much as I can 43 cruises and counting. I also write a lot and have given a ton of speeches (check out my graduation speech on YouTube for a crowd of 8000!). In retrospect, glad my high school suicide attempts didn't succeed.

Doing drugs with my hippie friends, intellectual conversations with my straight ones. Flirting with danger by dating a couple of blocs. High jump champion of PG County. Skipping 44 days my senior year. Sex in the costume shop backstage. Plays, plays and more plays. Dark of the Moon, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Bury the Dead, Antigone was my first (oh light of the rising sun), running track with Jane Hill. My Volkswagon, trips to Atlantic City, Mateus and French bread from Iverson Mall, hanging out at Shoppes, writing my column for The Cavalcade, working on the yearbook, loading up folks to go to the Ranch Drive-In, harassing Mr. Hrezo (may he rest in more peace than he had as a principal). A couple of suicide attempts. Concerts at the Alexandria Roller Rink (Big Brother & the Holding Company, Jeff Beck, Union Gap, the Boxtops, Fudge) Seeing the Stones in the fall of 1969. My best friendship with Donna Neuwirth which has lasted over 50 years now. My close friendships with Hilary Lord and Dave Burgess and Pam Berge and David Draper and Nancy McCullough and Bob and then Pete Bergman and their whole family (who took care of me as if I were one of their own). My crypto-fascist eating club pals--Stephen Tinius, Eric Wurzbacher, Karl Gebhardt, Steve Jent, and David Bischoff (RIP) Being in love, by turns, with Bill Mather, John Jarvis, Chris Jennison, Pete Mirones, Danny Shipman, Dexter Reynolds, Russ Gann, Tom Ruby, Larry Sauter, Ron Smith, Rim Gardner, Larry Ahern, Steve "Konrad" Tinius, Mark Frederickson, Mike Dulion, Bob Klaus, oh my gosh--my diary is full of love and devotion and insanity.