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Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud

I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist

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January 24, 2015 by Kate Mayer 4 Comments

I should have an EZ Pass to the local surgical center, or at least a customer rewards card. Having been bottoms up more times than I can remember, the least I could get is a free sandwich? Cup of clear fluid? Anything? Just completed my umpteenth colonoscopy, and lived to tell about it. Way back when, after having “symptoms,” I met with a gastroenterologist who quickly said, “Four kids? You’ve got hemorrhoids,

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The F Word

November 18, 2014 by Kate Mayer Leave a Comment

Apparently Time magazine is still in print, and you can check out the current edition at a podiatrist’s office near you. It features an article, Which Words Should Be Banned for 2015, with a list of worst words poll, of which “feminist” is one. 2015. Feminist. And Time magazine suggests we ban it. In the year of domestic violence, rapes across college campuses, birth control limited by employers, women’s reproductive health care banned outright,

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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 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 the Year … Read More Here...

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