And the Hey everyone it's Andrew Clavin and welcome to this week's interview.

This is the second of our two-part series of terrific female writers who are related to me.

You won't get this anywhere else for some reason.

Today my guest is Faith Moore.

She used to be Faith Clavin, but realized that a girl's reputation

can only stand so much,

so she changed her name and now lives incognito.

To Faith Moore, you have often heard me talk about mothers

and homemakers with great respect and even honor. and I'm not being sentimental about that at all

I'm not like a Victorian talking about the angel in the house or some perfect ideal

creature on a Hallmark card I'm talking about mothers and homemakers the way they actually are, sometimes

flying on their last nerve and covered with all kinds of various substances that babies throw at them.

But I really do believe that these are people who are not just

making human beings but making beings human and making life, human life and I'm very

very proud that my daughter Faith Moore is a genuinely first-rate example of that profession and happens

to be in charge of two of the most adorable children ever invented. I'm not just

saying that because they're my grandsons this is an objective truth

repeatedly proven in peer-reviewed studies but I'm not bringing her on today as a

mom because she's not your mom and doesn't care what you think of her as a mom

I bring her on today because she's written an absolutely

delightful Christmas novel called Christmas Carol Carol spelled with a K and

while you're buying 17 or 18 copies of my novel, A House of Love and Death for the tough guys in your life,

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