Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
While it seems the entire country is cleaning up and clearing out closets, cupboards, and creepy, crawly basements by saying good-bye to items that no longer spark joy, some people aren’t feeling the magic. Marie Kondo, the best-selling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing is helping thousands (maybe millions with a new Netflix show), clear lives of clutter and keep only what sparks joy.
My aging parents’ basement flooded and somehow I was the lifeline called when Mom and Dad stepped knee-deep into floating cat litter. Seems Eduardo may not have put in the best drainage system under their new patio, so torrential rain let A River Run Through It despite 40 years – FORTY EFFing YEARS – of dry basement. The big thaw brought white caps and gurgling sounds coming from multiple crevices
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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