May 4, 2021
This week we welcome writer, freelance journalist (NYT, WAPO),
and former professor, Ann Bauer, to the podcast. (https://annbauer.com/)
Ann Bauer is the author of Wild Ride Up the Cupboards (a novel
inspired by raising her son). She also wrote the culinary memoir
Damn Good Food with Mitch Omer (owner of Hell’s Kitchen) at the
behest of the Minnesota Historical Society. The Forever Marriage is
about a friend of hers that was married to a man she didn’t love,
but found out that he had an inoperable, fatal, disease, and stuck
it out with him. She has also written many essays for the New York
Times, Washington Post, Redbook , and others.
She stopped writing after the death of her oldest son, and decided
that she wanted to fade out of the public eye. That worked until
COVID hit. They shut down society and when they closed the schools,
she spoke out on Twitter. That brought down a whole storm of
criticism and insults as the cancel crowd came for her.
Anne has been speaking out since, and has found that those she
thought were her friends turned on her and those that she thought
would have never agreed with her have come to support her.
She has made it her mission to keep the government from using this
pandemic to control us, first and foremost, getting the
schools back in session to give this lost generation back their
shot at success in life.