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Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud

I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist

Why I Miss Commuting to Work

September 10, 2012 by Kate Mayer 7 Comments

Working from home eliminates the need for commuting, or so one would think. I ache for that commute time: that rubbernecking, traffic jammed, disabled car on the side of the road valuable me time. Nothing but radio du jour, or book-on-tape, or simple silence to think. To figure stuff out. Time to mentally prep for your day, unravel on the way home, to aptly switch gears from home to work

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J.O.B.

November 11, 2009 by Kate Mayer 2 Comments

I got a job. The kind where they pay you on a regular basis with a check that clears and a boss and an email and responsibilities and for christssake I may get a business card. I shit you not. Okay. So edit me. Censor me. I GOT A JOB! Can I tell you that since my last pity-party-posting, I have applied to 77 jobs I could do easily, and

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Kathryn Mayer

An irreverent storyteller with a foul mouth and big heart, Kathryn Mayer (aka Kathy and/or Kate) is a writer, humorist, and 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 the Year … Read More Here...

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