Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
Bear Hunt. Remember reading this one to your kids? Get it? Aw, forget it. So I went on a business trip. Actually, my second, but I consider it my first, because the first one didn’t count being that I thought Boss Lady was punking me and I spent most of the time looking over my shoulder and expecting to be fired for incompetence at any moment. She took me out into the
Okay in 1980s dorm room. Not okay in cubicle. I need to clarify: my new job is in addition to other work. Not instead of. All the well wishes and congratulations is making me feel a slight bit guilty, especially since the many of my friends are still out-of-work. I’m luckily adding to the hodgepodge of what I do, not taking anything away. I would never take anything away. I
Been a little busy around here, you know, with all the friggin’ SNOW DAYS and SCHOOL DELAYS and EARLY DISMISSALS that wreck havoc on every parent that works at home. Or attempts to work at home. Better yet, give me an office, cubicle, desk, or cubbie anywhere but here. Because with 5 snow days down, and winter far from over, I want out of this house. Give me a job,
Seems I’m working too much. Bossman called yesterday to say the 15-20 hours per week is just too much, and he wants to scale back to 5-10. Immediately. I knew this going in, but after the xmas techno splurge, this news was a little tough to the gut. Combing through the timesheet, he does seem to like the work I’ve done so far. But that work takes time. Just a
My small-town paper ran an article on a local marketing firm celebrating 10 years of business. It’s a great little firm; all women, minority-owned, successful. In those 10 years, this woman started in her living room and now employs 4 other women, and perhaps, just maybe, me. I sent them a quick pitch letter, congratulating their 10 years of business, and saying coincidently, 10 years ago, I shelved mine 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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