Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
You’ve been home with the kids for a few years, maybe more, maybe less. When do you know it’s time to reenter the work force? I’ve got some ideas. You’re looking around the PTO meeting and don’t know a soul. Your kids are the ‘big kids’ in the back of the bus. Your youngest is everyone else’s oldest. You don’t pay babysitters any longer. Your kids are the babysitters. You’re
How do you know it’s time to go back to work after being a stay at home mom? When the time is right, you think you will know it. But sometimes, stay-at-home moms don’t realize they’re the last ones, um, staying. All you new moms sitting home on maxi-pads the size of volkswagons, with bloody, cracked nipples (you know who you are), crying over McDonald’s commercials holding a beautiful baby
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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