In the late 1980s Adi Gevins and I got a CPB grant to do a series of half-hour programs about American holiday traditions. We called it A Gathering of Days: American Holiday Traditions. Here’s what I, pregnant at the time, did for Mother’s Day. I called it Mothers. On deadline I put finishing touches on Mothers with my newborn tucked like a football under my arm. We begin with theme music by Sue Schardt’s Hot […]
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What Day It Is
I really don’t know why I get like this on my b’day, all mournful. But things like this do help: I’ll come back and finish this post at the other end of my birthday day. Other End of My Birthday Day To quote Yo-Nenny’s friend, Thomas, “Man, I’ve never been this old before.” If it hadn’t been for my friends and family, I’d probably have been in the garden all day eating worms. But my […]
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I ended up playing hooky yesterday to go to the human rights demonstration in San Francisco. This excerpt from today’s Christian Science Monitor gives a little context for the protest. In Beijing, officials have expressed dismay that the torch has run into such political turmoil. “People should respect the torch because it represents the common aspirations of all peoples,” BOCOG spokeswoman Wang Hui argued this week. “It represents the Olympic spirit.” Other observers, though, say […]
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A while back Brian asked me to perform at a Pacifica Radio Archives fundraiser on St. Paddy’s Day. I didn’t want to. He insisted. I haven’t danced since one broken foot and one screwed-up Achilles tendon ago. Plus, I’m not very good. I wish I was. And I wish I liked dancing in front of strangers, but I don’t, though I’ve done it a lot. But at last we reached a compromise: I would teach […]
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