For The Love Of Moms

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wisconsin Public Radio

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4.7 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate Mother's Day with a collection of stories from our archives, by and about moms. Stories about care and about courage — about the work of mothering.

Original Air Date: May 13, 2023

Guests:

Stephanie Land, Eula Biss, Jacqueline Horner Plumez, Amanda Henry, Ayelet Waldman

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Anne. And this hour, we're celebrating Mother's Day with a collection of
0:06.6	stories from our archives. Now, these are not, your stereotypical hearts and flowers,
0:13.7	isn't Mom wonderful, let's give her a hallmark card kind of stories. These are more in tune with
0:19.9	the actual origins of Mother's Day, which was a women's crusade
0:23.9	against poverty and war.
0:25.8	Back in the mid to late 1800s.
0:28.1	No greeting cards, no brunch.
0:31.2	So for the love of moms, keep listening.
0:45.5	Music Keep listening. Wisconsin Public Radio.
0:52.7	It's to the best of our knowledge.
0:54.4	I'm Anne Strange Champs.
0:57.1	And today we're celebrating Mother's Day
0:59.3	with a collection of stories from our archives
1:01.6	by and about moms.
1:05.0	Stories about care and about courage,
1:08.0	about the work of mothering.
1:23.4	Yeah. and about courage, about the work of mothering. We moved into the homeless shelter when she was seven or eight months.
1:30.2	Here's writer Stephanie Land.
1:38.4	She started walking on her first birthday or the day before.
1:47.0	And we moved out of the homeless shelter
1:49.0	the day after her first birthday.
1:52.0	Given the environment, it was drab and a little
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