Mother Stories

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The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War
(Frances Richey)

The Sum of Our Days
(Isabel Allende)

Lady of the Snakes
(Rachel Pastan)

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
(Jeanne Birdsall)

Incidental Music:

Mockingbird
(Melissa Errico)
The Language of Water
(David Rothenberg)
Kumbaya
(Paul Hanson and Tracy Silverman)
Cancion de Cuna
(Eliot Fisk)
Bayushky Bayu
(Debbra, Margot and Noah Schwartz with Sunita Staneslow)
Selections from 'The Penderwicks on Gardam Street'
(Susan Denaker)
The Fjords of Oslo
(Bela Fleck and the Flecktones)
Oddball
(Leo Kottke)
Wildflowers
(Melissa Errico)
Lady of the Snakes
05.10.2009
 (was 05.11.2008)

Every mom deserves something special on Mother's Day. We can't fix you breakfast in bed or drop by with coffee and muffins – though here's hoping someone in your life does! - but we can serve up a radio show. What do women want to say to each other about what it's like to be a mom.

  1. Frances Richey on "The Warrior – A Mother's Story of a Son at War"

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    Poet Frances Richey calls her latest collection "The Warrior – A Mother's Story of a Son at War."

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  2. Isabel Allende on "The Sum of Our Days"

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    Isabel Allende talks with Anne Strainchamps about "The Sum of Our Days." It's Allende's fourth memoir, and takes the form of a letter to her deceased daughter, Paula.

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  3. Amanda Henry on the Road to Motherhood

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    Amanda Henry provides a commentary on the rocky road to motherhood.

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  4. Rachel Pastan on "Lady of the Snakes"

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    Rachel Pastan reads from and talks with Steve Paulson about her novel "Lady of the Snakes." The book concerns a young professor of 19th century Russian literature confronted with combining her professional life and motherhood.

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  5. Jeanne Birdsall on "The Penderwicks on Gardam Street"

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    Jeanne Birdsall began writing at age 41. Her first novel became an instant classic.

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