Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
ICYMI (in case you missed it): I’ve been submitting my work, otherwise known as throwing spaghetti, and the last couple weeks have been good for sticking: My kids have been soccer referees, basketball refs, and lax refs. Usually, most youth referees are somebody’s kids. Despite this pic, they’re not that tough. But that doesn’t stop parents from behaving badly. Really badly. BluntMoms syndicated an essay I wrote about that here. Scary Mommy picked up my frustration
I recently submitted, recycled, repurposed a blog post on Scary Mommy because go big or go home. I sent along the story about wanting to stab my teenage daughter with a fork, because, well she’s a teenage daughter. And that’s how I felt at the time. Several times. They liked it and published it the day I left for our traditional no tech vacation. Where we have no wifi, not gadgets,
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...
kate[at]kathrynmayer[dot]com
xo Kate