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Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud

I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist

The Lucky Bastard on Purple Clover

June 19, 2018 by Kate Mayer 4 Comments

Kate Mayer writes about best way to goI recently came across something I wrote a year after my dad died. It was about his own friend dying many years earlier, and I had to be the one to tell him.

Discovered the story again, and it still kicks me in the gut, but maybe, I thought, it was because it was my dad, our story.

So I sent it to an editor to consider for publication, and Purple Clover bought it and published on Father’s Day.

A long time ago, I had to tell my Dad his buddy died, and his jovial response surprised me. Until years later, I was jealous, and wondered if he was too.

Read it here, at Purple Clover, whom I am grateful thought this was a story worth telling.

Thanks for reading and sharing, even when I’m not so funny.


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  1. Linda says

    July 1, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    Such a beautiful, moving tribute! I dread the day when my father joins the friends and relatives who have died before him. Thanks for your honest feelings and for sharing your dad’s honest reaction to his friend’s passing. We need more discussions like this. And congratulations on having it on Purple Clover!

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    • Kate Mayer says

      July 2, 2018 at 8:40 am

      Thx kindly for the read, and generous comment. Much appreciated!

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      • Colette Zito says

        July 5, 2018 at 3:01 pm

        I am grateful for the cherished memories of Mike your writing provided my soul. Colette Zito, Pawling

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        • Kate Mayer says

          July 6, 2018 at 6:37 am

          Thank you so much for reading, remembering, forgiving the foul mouth (mine and his), and loving!

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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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