Tara Clancy: Adventures In Babymaking
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The joys and dangers of getting pregnant for Tara Clancy and her wife. Tara Clancy is a writer and performer. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review and The Rumpus. She is also a winner of The Moth GrandSlam storytelling competition and was recently featured on their podcast. Originally from Queens, Tara now lives in Manhattan with her wife and two sons. More at www.taraclancy.com
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal |
| 0:27.7 | stories about science. |
| 0:29.5 | We have a live show coming up February 4th in New York City, storycollider.org for details. |
| 0:34.8 | This week's story is from Tara Clancy. |
| 0:36.5 | It was recorded in January 2015 at Under St. Mark's Theater in New York as part of the first ever STEM Fest. |
| 0:49.2 | Okay, so I have to start by saying that this is actually the first story I have ever told about my children, |
| 0:58.8 | or more specifically about how my wife and I went about having our children. |
| 1:06.8 | And so I feel like I just need to start by saying that there's like two reasons I'm doing this, all right? |
| 1:12.4 | There's two reasons. |
| 1:13.5 | The first one is not, it's a little unsavory, but it's true. |
| 1:19.4 | So I'm just going to admit it. |
| 1:21.2 | And that is just that I just need to get some mileage out of these little fuckers, you know? |
| 1:33.1 | Like having kids is just, it's not easy, right? |
| 1:36.3 | It's not easy. |
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