About Lessons from the Laundry

Working her way through 12,000 loads of laundry in her lifetime, Kathy Gillen has had plenty of time to contemplate life in the solitary confinement of her laundry room. Kathy, a stay-at-home mom of four children, speaks passionately for the 5.4 million stay-at-home moms who would rather convince children that tofu was tasty than scrub grass stains out of one more smelly jersey.

Lessons from the Laundry is Kathy’s humorous, inspirational self-help book that compares the drudgery of Laundry to the realities of being a mom. The book is not yet published and is currently seeking representation. (Interested literary agents and editors, please contact Kathy.)

The Lessons from the Laundry website is the book’s online home, a place for moms find solace and support in a Sisterhood of the Tedious.

The owner of three sets of washers and dryers in her life, but never a Prada handbag, Kathy represents all women who nurture their families, while at the same time curse every unmatched sock that ends up in laundry purgatory. She is a laundry expert, although she has never been asked to speak on a national platform about her vast knowledge, possibly because of a few stained t-shirts and bleached kitchen rugs.Kathy doesn’t covet designer clothes, but dreams of doing laundry in a fashionable laundry room, with cable TV and an espresso machine. She lives with her husband and four awesome kids in Pittsburgh, PA.