Linda Kotis

Linda Kotis is senior counsel at DC Affordable Law Firm. She has written for many publications, including Kiplinger, ABA Probate & Property Magazine, Bloomberg Daily Tax Report, and Washington Lawyer. Some articles make fair use of TV sitcom characters to illustrate complex issues, a form of creative nonfiction. Linda’s series of personal essays, “Retirement Writes,” is published semi-monthly in LISI’s Employee Benefits & Retirement Newsletter. Mediterranean Poetry and The Owl’s Rant have selected her poetry for publication later this year. Linda is working on a memoir about her 2024 trip to Greece, her ancestral homeland.

Mismeasured*

My underarms were moist, the back of my neck clammy. The shower I took in my sister’s dorm was for naught, failing to prevent the pervasive body odor that betrayed me. It was an early March morning in Bloomington, the humidity transforming my shoulder-length hair into a mop of brown frizz, the surface of my face red-lumped and shining like a vinyl rain slicker. I meandered across the quad.
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