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Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud

I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist

No daughter was harmed in this blog post

August 11, 2015 by Kate Mayer 1 Comment

Kate Mayer appears on Scary Mommy with a forkI recently submitted, recycled, repurposed a blog post on Scary Mommy because go big or go home. I sent along the story about wanting to stab my teenage daughter with a fork, because, well she’s a teenage daughter. And that’s how I felt at the time. Several times.

They liked it and published it the day I left for our traditional no tech vacation. Where we have no wifi, not gadgets, and very little cell service except for the coveted third base of the softball field, where you can often find people sneaking peaks at iphones in order to keep their jobs and be able to return year after year after year.

So I didn’t know until I sneaked a peak by the light of the moon and the glow of my iphone that things were getting real over on Scary Mommy Facebook page (thousands of likes, thousands of shares and hundreds of supportive ME-TOO comments).

Being a mommy ain’t so scary when you don’t gotta go it alone. Thanks to Scary Mommy for letting me share the angst of raging hormones, and thanks to the readers who gave a resounding “me too” with their Facebook love.

Go ahead and see for yourself, here.

PS: Part of my writing goal is to submit, submit, submit. This goes to show, people don’t know you’re out there, until you put yourself out there. Thanks to Beyond Your Blog for giving me the tools and confidence to take a chance on yes.

 


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  1. Update your profile picture or be stuck in a time warp looking for people who thought they knew you - Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud says:
    March 27, 2018 at 2:29 pm

    […] While perfect for my parenting blog, my return-to-work-mom essays, it ran into a little problem when I wrote about condoms, or how blow-jobs-are-sex, and who in their right mind would want to stab these lovelies with a fork? […]

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An irreverent storyteller with a foul mouth and big heart, Kathryn Mayer (aka Kathy and/or Kate) is a writer, humorist, and (former) activist writing out loud with humor and grace about little life moments with big ripples, including the space between parenting and aging parents, social issues, angsty reflections of midlife, and, sigh, gun humpers. Still. Sometimes a big deal, sometimes not Mayer is a national award-winning columnist, according to the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and her essays have been recognized as Voice of … Read More Here...

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