Nora McInerny, NO HAPPY ENDINGS
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Nora McInerny takes a lifetime of loss and turns it into an inspiring, humorous tale especially as she remarries and blends her new family after losing her first husband.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:11.8 | Today's episode has been sponsored by Serial Box. Serial Box delivers addictive book content |
| 0:17.5 | in short listen or read installments, designed to fit into today's fast-paced mobile |
| 0:22.1 | lifestyle switch between listening and reading with a single click picking up right where you left off |
| 0:27.0 | learn more at cerealbox.com s e r i a albbox dot com i am so thrilled to be interviewing nora mackinernie |
| 0:36.8 | who is the author of two memoirs. |
| 0:38.8 | It's okay to laugh. |
| 0:39.6 | Crying is cool, too, and no happy endings. |
| 0:41.9 | She's the founder of the nonprofit still kick-in in memory of her husband Aaron, who passed away from brain cancer at age 35. |
| 0:48.5 | She also founded the Hot Young Widows Club. |
| 0:50.7 | Graduate of Xavier University, Nora has contributed to many publications, including L. Cosmopolitan, |
| 0:56.3 | Vox, and Time Magazine. She's also the host of the podcast, Terrible. Thanks for asking. |
| 1:00.7 | She currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and children. Hi, Nora, how are you? |
| 1:05.1 | Hi, how's it going? Thanks for coming on moms, don't have time to read books. Hey, no problem. |
| 1:09.7 | You can hear me okay? Yes. It's not too noisy in here? No, it's great. Can you hear me okay? I can. It's wonderful. Excellent. Well, I'm so honored that you agreed to come on moms don't have time to read books because I'm really such a huge fan of you and you're writing and still kick in and basically everything that you're doing. So thank you for taking the time. |
| 1:31.9 | Thank you. It's super fun. I'm glad we finally get to talk and thank you for being so flexible. |
| 1:38.0 | Of course. Of course. We're getting snowed in every other day here. So my kids basically have not had a full week of school since winter break. Oh my gosh. |
| 1:43.5 | Either there's like a random day off, there's a teacher in service, or it was a snow day |
| 1:47.7 | like yesterday. |
| 1:49.1 | Oh, yeah, they keep that. |
| 1:50.4 | I think that we've been scheduled this for yesterday or it would have been like me, like, |
| 1:53.3 | yelling the whole time. |
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