Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
Shared a great post about my South Bronx girl with the BluntMoms and they were kind enough to publish it! This is my first time on this bucket list website of like-minded, potty-mouthed writers. The piece selected, however, is beautiful glimpse of real life, not a scathing expose of motherhood. Maybe next time. Take a visit to this blunt and hysterically funny site, and find surprisingly touching glimpses of real life as well.
I have a part-time daughter: a little girl from the South Bronx, who I’ve watched grow up from afar, taught how to read, camp, pick blueberries. I taught her how to use a tampon, importance of birth control, and shoved the importance of school down her throat to escape the only world she ever knew. She’s started as a summer time daughter, turning 5 on the deadline date she climbed
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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xo Kate