Stories from the National Public Radio archives celebrate moms and motherhood.
Stories so compelling you'll stay in your car to hear them through — even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me!host Peter Sagal captures your attention with colorful tales for and about moms.
Like Madame Defarge from A Tale of Two Cities, Susan Stamberg has often knitted her way through political upheaval. While knitting her first baby blanket, she muses on a political milestone. Storyteller Kevin Kling describes the yearly conflict in Minnesota between Mother's Day and the opening of fishing season. Commentator Gwen Macsai marvels that her children's standards for motherhood are higher than their own. And comedian Amy Borkowsky shares hilarious messages left on her answering machine by her worrywart mom, including 'I’m having second thoughts about that little palm-size computer that you bought. You could swallow it and, God forbid, choke…'
Heard in All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, News & Notes, and other NPR programs, these stories and more are for moms, moms-to-be, and anyone who has ever known or had a mother.
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As men and women tell about their uncommon mothers, their stories merge in to a meaningful, defining montage. Varied music, moods, and settings make a crazy quilt of these memories, first aired on NPR. Settings vary from Arlington, Virginia, where mothers meet their sons' graves to Montana, where a state legislator rises from poverty with her children. Emotions are high as a daughter tearfully remembers her mother's last Thanksgiving, with an IV providing nourishment. Then there's the story of phone messages between Amy Borkowsky and her mother, which led to the book AMY'S ANSWERING MACHINE. Perspectives are as different as linguist Deborah Tannen's interview describing the typical mother-daughter relationship of caring and criticism and the story of a mother whose personal experiences teach that her mother's "Because I said so!" works better with her kids than her own nightmare as the "Mother Teresa of labeling feelings." S.W. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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PETER SAGAL is the host of NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! the oddly informative news quiz. He is also a playwright and author. He lives near Chicago with his wife, Beth Sagal, and their three daughters.
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