For The Love Of Moms
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2025
⏱️ 53 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
Interviews In This Hour:
The all-encompassing worlds of motherhood and poverty — Eula Biss on 'The Argonauts' — Jacqueline Plumez on Mother Power — Amanda Henry on the Road to Motherhood — Ayelet Waldman on Trying to Be a Decent Mother
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, |
| 0:22.5 | which was a women's crusade against poverty and war. |
| 0:25.9 | Back in the mid-delayed 1800s. |
| 0:28.2 | 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. |
| 0:52.8 | It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm Anne Strange Hamps. |
| 0:57.1 | And today we're celebrating Mother's Day |
| 0:59.3 | with a collection of stories from our archives |
| 1:01.7 | by and about moms. |
| 1:04.9 | Stories about care and about courage, |
| 1:08.0 | about the work of mothering. |
| 1:23.6 | 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. |
| 1:38.5 | 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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