Finding Humor in Life’s Messier Moments with NC Journalist Katherine Snow Smith

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In this episode 397, we welcome author and journalist Katherine Snow Smith to the show! We discuss Katherine’s latest memoir, Stepping on the Blender & Other Times Life Gets Messy, which takes a closer look at the process of beginning again after a divorce. Katherine laces her transparent account of more difficult experiences with positivity and humor. Southern Literary Review says, “Smith knows her craft well. She is a sharp observer, skilled writer, and an engaging and entertaining storyteller.”

Show discussion highlights: 

  • Katherine’s relationship with her father, News & Observer reporter AC Snow
  • The importance of bathroom reading material…!
  • The difference between undergrad at UNC for journalism, and getting a Masters decades later
  • The story behind the title, Stepping on the Blender
  • Katherine’s hope for women who read her memoir
  • Humor in memoir writing
  • The idea that we all change, and so do the places we grew up in
  • How to prepare for releasing a more personal book and answering the question, do you tell your friends/family first?
  • Katherine’s career in journalism across the Southeast
  • What Katherine would tell anyone who wants to write their story but is nervous to do so

Brief author bio: Raleigh native Katherine Snow Smith has lived throughout the south as a newspaper reporter, editor, daughter, sister, mother, wife, divorcee and friend. She’s worked at small town papers and business journals, but spent most of her career at the esteemed Tampa Bay Times. A few decades (no need to count them) after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism, she’s getting her master’s at her alma mater so she can teach on a college level. Katherine, who has three 20-something children, divides her time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and St. Petersburg, Florida.

Learn more about the author and their books HERE.

https://katherinesnowsmith.com/

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