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Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud

I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist

Blocking dear old cousin eloise from a facebook feeding frenzy

February 19, 2017 by Kate Mayer 18 Comments

My mother-in-law has commented on my writing exactly once. Once. “You spelled hear wrong.” That’s it. Once. But that’s how I found out she reads me – and is an excellent proofreader. Can’t say the same about Cousin Eloise. The perfect family matriarch strikes back. Again and again. Cousin Eloise never comments on my writing, but emails directly her disapproval. Her dissatisfaction also graced the post-script of her annual, heavy linen Christmas card,

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Why it’s good to read the comments

March 25, 2016 by Kate Mayer 23 Comments

Kate Mayer reads comments out loud

I read the comments on my essay about a gift my mother-in-law gave me over 20 years ago. I read all of them. It was proudly printed in Cosmo, then reprinted in Redbook, Good Housekeeping and Women’s Day. If you didn’t see it, you can read it here. Yes, I’m still talking about it. It has over 210,000 views. That’s a lot. If they read it. Which a few of

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Trolls vs. Friends. Friends Win.

December 15, 2010 by Kate Mayer 11 Comments

I recently got slammed for my Abercrombie blog, for being “misogynist” and “slut-shaming little girls.” Ouch. Not exactly, my interpretation, but apparently I incited some angry feminist Abercrombie shoppers. They call it trolling in the blog-world. And while I’d like to be all bad ass about it, it freaked me out. A lot. Like 7th grade lunch room freak out when the popular girls all wear overalls and I’m still

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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 (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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