Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
Remember the one about the writer who went to a writing conference and attempted stand-up comedy for the first and most likely only time? That would be me at the Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, in the humor writing capital of the world, Dayton, Ohio. I was hand-selected (out of a hat, randomly) and only continued onto the stage under the careful handholding and kick-in-the-ass by comedienne Wendy Liebman, who is apparently
Four kids, three houses, eight cars, and three colleges ago, I was a waitress at Denny’s. Many a Grand Slam breakfasts and chicken fried steak paid for community college. Whenever a posse of older women came, the wait staff would immediately hide in the kitchen, no one wanting that table. Chimes of “not me, not me, not me” rang out like seagulls finding fries at the beach, and with good
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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