Kathryn O'Day

Kathryn O'Day is a former high school English teacher working on a memoir about her experiences in Chicago Public Schools. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the Northwind Writing Award whose work has been published in The Good Earth Review, Pangyrus, Another Chicago Magazine, Prose Online, Touchstone, and The Northwind Anthology.

Point of Departure, Point of Return

If you ever happen to be in St. Louis, and you take Highway 40 to the western edge of the city, you will spy, looming above the Clayton Road exit, the world’s largest Amoco sign. Forty feet tall, sixty feet wide, the sign is so big and so bright that, according to local legend, pilots once used it to guide their flights in and out of Lambert Field.

Kathryn O'Day

Kathryn O'Day is a former high school English teacher working on a memoir about her experiences in Chicago Public Schools. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the Northwind Writing Award whose work has been published in The Good Earth Review, Pangyrus, Another Chicago Magazine, Prose Online, Touchstone, and The Northwind Anthology.

Point of Departure, Point of Return

If you ever happen to be in St. Louis, and you take Highway 40 to the western edge of the city, you will spy, looming above the Clayton Road exit, the world’s largest Amoco sign. Forty feet tall, sixty feet wide, the sign is so big and so bright that, according to local legend, pilots once used it to guide their flights in and out of Lambert Field.

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