NPR driveway moments. [radio stories that won't let you go]. Moms
According to NPR, a Driveway Moment is when a listener is so riveted by a radio piece that he or she will stay in their idling car to hear the show all the way through. Presented here, drawn from award-winning NPR programs such as All Things Considered and Morning Edition, are vibrant tales of... Full description
| Other Authors: | Sagal, Peter., National Public Radio (U.S.) |
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| Format: | CD |
| Language: | English |
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HighBridge Audio, 2009 |
| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Introduction |
| More Messages from Amy's Answering Machine |
| Solving the Mystery of Mother-Daughter Speak |
| Mommy as a Role Model? Get Real |
| Bad Mommy |
| Just Mom and Me and Chuck E. Cheese |
| Surprised by Mom |
| Knitting for Life, and for Life's Milestones |
| Legislator Offers First-Person View of Welfare |
| StoryCorps: Mother's Magic, Stretching a Christmas Dollar |
| Tamale Recipe Proves Hard to Keep Secret |
| 'Chickenbutt' and Other Lessons from Grandma |
| Who is Singing Me Lullabies? |
| Mementoes Honor Sons Lost to War |
| In Memoir, Allende Reveals Life to Late Daughter |
| I Love My Kids-But Give Me a Break |
| Mother's Day vs. Fishing Season Opener |
| Hidden Kitchen Mama |
| Mother's Day Recipes |
| StoryCorps: Special Memories of a Final Thanksgiving Meal |
| Young, Single and Raising a Child |
| Rocket Science |
| Mom Remembers Her Olympic Past |
| Turning Into Your Mother Isn't So Bad After All |
| A Partially Empty Nest, with Mixed Feelings |
| Grandmother: A Story of Aging, Decline and Love |
| This I Believe: The Power of Love to Transform and to Heal |
AUTHOR NOTES
Tom Schutyser is a Belgian documentary photographer and researcher. Andrew W. Lawler is a contributing editor to Science and Archaeology . Reza Aslan authored the international bestseller No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam . Robert Fisk is an award-winning journalist. Rachid el-Daïf 's novels have been translated from Arabic into 11 languages. Dominique Moïsi is senior adviser at the French Institute for International Relations. Paul Salem is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut.
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