Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
Remember when I put on my big girl pants and auditioned for Listen To Your Mother NYC? When I blathered on and on, my tongue swelled and pits pitted? While sitting there sweating and talking, I met some wicked nice people, who didn’t want to Tanya Harding me, but instead were supportive and friendly. Real friendly, not fake friendly. I can tell the difference. I talk too much. It’s what I do
I took this show on the road, this writing, this mouth, this mom, to NYC to audition for a pretty amazing opportunity. I signed up on a whim, and with careful encouraging and bullying from rather attractive husband, actually followed through and showed up for the audition. Talk about intimidating. Say what you want, but an audition in NYC is an entirely different experience than typing away blindly into an
You can’t make old friends, so when a college buddy of rather-attractive hubby and mine, who we have not seen in 4 kids or so, came to town, we wanted to see him. He and his bride traveled across the country; the least we could do was get our married-with-children teenagers asses into New York for a night out. It wasn’t root canal; it was dinner and drinks with
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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