Brian Mayer on WNC with us now and Lamotte who has been such an inspiration to so many people over many years

He is just out with her 20th book. It's called Somehow Thoughts on Love. Maybe Ann Lamad has helped you through early

parenting with her book operating instructions, a journal of my son's first year, or help you as a writer or just as a human being

with her classic bird by bird some instructions on writing in life or maybe you've

seen her 2017 TED Talk viewed around 7 million times by now called 12 truths

I learned from life and writing, for example. Number 10, Grace.

Grace is spiritual W.D. 40 or water wings.

The mystery of grace is that God loves Henry Kissinger and

Vladimir Putin and me exactly as much as he or she loves your new grandchild.

Go figure.

Yeah, go figure, but not hard to figure

that love would figure in book number 20,

as it did in that truth number 10 so it's somehow

thoughts on love besides being an author of books and Lamotte is a

contributing columnist for the Washington Post where she's been very active lately writing about things like turning 70 not being so strange

and finding love at 63

and I'm so glad she joins us now and And thank you for coming on the show again.

Welcome back to WNYC.

I'm so happy to be here, Brian.

So Ann, thoughts on love.

I'm struck by how many kinds of love you reference in this book, family love, community love, love of music,

God's love, as in that TED Talk clip, is it a decent place to start to ask,

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