Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
So remember a ways back when I wouldn’t stop blabbing about the Listen To Your Mother show in NYC? Where I read an essay about the angst of taking your kid to college in an auditorium filled with people who actually paid to listen? The audition, the casting, the prep, the wardrobe, the afterglow? Did you begin to think it never really happened? I did. But here’s the YouTube proof. For the
Taking your kid to college sucks. That’s the big secret no one tells, because you wouldn’t believe them. But I sure wish I was warned. Friends with children who already flew the coop did not aptly prepare me for the extreme pain and heartache that accompanied taking kid #1 to college. There’s a pact of secrecy amongst those that have already unloaded boxes into dorms to not tell us newbies how hard
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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