Laundromat Detour
Laundromat Detour is an amusing and inspiring collection of poems exploring laundromat ownership and workplace connections with mindfulness and gratitude. On a career detour, as co-owner and hands-on attendant, the author embraces challenges and joys from inside the mat. Free verse poems examine the uniqueness of daily objects and tasks like washers, lost and found boxes, mopping and folding laundry. Memorable customers and a spectrum of talkers who visit the mat are introduced. Fictional backstories behind laundry detritus, the odds and ends left in washers and dryers such as bra underwires, collar stays, fake fingernails and more, are woven into humorous poems and photographs. Final poems share the author’s changing perspectives on self and country due to business ownership.
"Clever...Offbeat...Poignant"
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Leah enjoys creating poems, prayers, personal essays, children’s stories and homemade greeting cards. Laundromat Detour is her debut publication. Other interests include exercise, being in nature and living lightly. Aside from babysitting and housecleaning, her first enterprise was selling snow cones on foot from a red wagon in her neighborhood. Her careers, to date, include physical therapist, adjunct professor, executive director for a US-Nepal nonprofit and since 2018, a laundromat co-owner. She lives near St. Louis.
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