Kitty O'Meara, AND THE PEOPLE STAYED HOME

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Kitty O’Meara’s poem, And the People Stayed Home, went absolutely viral during the pandemic (the irony of which is not lost on her). She sits down with Zibby to discuss her sudden rise to fame, her hope for the post-pandemic future, and the illuminating experience of being a hospice chaplain.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibi Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.3	Kitty O'Meara is the author of the picture book and the people stayed home. Kitty lives near Madison, Wisconsin,
0:45.3	with her husband, Philip Higdorn, their five rescue dogs, three cats, gardens, and books,
0:50.8	a former teacher of middle school writing and literature, and a hospital and hospice chaplain,
0:56.1	she's currently a spiritual director.
0:58.7	O'Meara has been a lifelong writer and artist, and the people stayed home is her first print
1:03.7	book, which, by the way, was adapted from a poem she wrote on Facebook at the very beginning
1:09.4	of the pandemic that went completely viral,
1:12.2	as we will discuss in this episode.
1:14.9	Hi there.
1:15.9	Hello.
1:16.5	How are you?
1:17.3	I'm fine.
1:18.3	How are you?
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