The Traveling Typist

The Traveling Typist

How the heck did I end up as a typewriter poet?

a very circuitous tale

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The Traveling Typist (Kay Kro)
Mar 11, 2025
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typewriter travels - by The Traveling Typist (Kay Kro)

Believe it or not, I was a property manager before I was a typewriter poet. People don’t go into property management. They wind up in property management. I worked for Draper & Kramer, managing a 56-story building on the lakefront.

I remember my boss dragging me along to the 2019 holiday party; he pointed to other managers of other buildings. That’s Tom…

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