Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
I never saw it coming, becoming the old lady on the block. Circle of life and all, I get it, but some neighbors got it before I did, calling me ma’am. Asking if I was saving the treehouse for the grandkids. Wondering if I wanted to sell the mower. When I moved to number 5, first house up the knoll on the left of a dead-end drive filled with empty
Hurricane Irene was a one-night stand like no other. No flowers, no drinks, no nothing. We barely made eye contact. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am. In the morning it was over, and we realized just how she trapped us in her wrath. Irene only screwed the beginning of our road, successfully trapping 18 families with no way out. And no way in, should an emergency arise. Which it didn’t, for
I was wrong. My loser teenage kids did totally ditch me for the Neighborhood Holiday Party they insisted we host. And the neighborhood did arrive with bells on. But nobody burned the house down. Or killed the cat. In fact, it was a great night. They came, they drank, they ate. We laughed and laughed and had a blast. We drank too much, ate too much, and laughed too much,
Worked picked up, thankfully. Crazy busy, with piddly little boring jobs that will most definitely help out Santa dude, but in the meantime, bore me to death. I must do something about that. Later. Because I’ve got a teeny tiny problem: the Annual Neighborhood Tree Lighting Party is tomorrow. At my house. Did I say tomorrow? I probably mean tonight by the time I post this rant. I tried to
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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