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Piece Description
On Mother's Day, I'm realizing just how embarrassing I am to my children. I say the wrong things, I cry at the wrong time, I act way too happy when I shouldn't... I'm so uncool. How did this happen?
Broadcast History
Nanci Olesen has been producing short reports, commentaries, one-hour specials and a half hour weekly program, all under the auspices of MOMbo.org (http://www.mombo.org) since 2000. MOMbo?s mission statement is;
?to broadcast the everyday truth about motherhood (in order to save the world).?
In 2005, The NOW YOU MOMbo four hour series has been heard on many public and community public radio stations in the past year, including KALW, KFAI, KUOW, KCUR, KGOU, KROU, KUAT, KUNM, WOI-AM, WBEZ, WOJB, WOMR, WSLU, Maine Public Radio, North Dakota Public Radio, Trent Radio (Peterborough Ontario).
Five-minute commentaries have aired on KFAI, KNOW, WKMS, WOJB, WOMR WYSO, and Minnesota Public Radio since 1997.
MOMbo?s four one hour long specials (A MOMbo Thanksgiving, A MOMbo New Year, A MOMbo Mother?s Day (two versions), produced in association with Public Radio International, have aired on more than sixty stations nationwide since 2002.
Nanci Olesen is the executive director, producer and host of MOMbo.org, a 501?3 organization. MOMbo MOMents are the newest offering by MOMbo.org, and Olesen expects to produce at least two MOMbo MOMents a month (approximate length: 5 to 6 minutes). News from ?the underbelly of motherhood? is MOMbo?s specialty and MOMbo MOMents are designed to be interstitial reports from the extraordinary and ordinary lives of moms, made available to all stations so that the news from the ?mom zone? is more commonly heard.
MOMbo MOMents are podcast at http://www.mombo.org.
More information about MOMbo can be obtained at http://www.mombo.org/about
Transcript
This Mother?s Day I am thinking about how embarrassing I am. I am just like I was a few Mother?s Days ago, when the kids were in their early grade school years and I would sing at the top of my lungs in the car and they would sing with me. We used to do ?silly walk? on the way to school. If I try ?silly walk? now they say ?MOM. GOD. MOM.?
And I say, ?You guys, isn?t that funny??
And they say?NO!?
I still cry as soon as their choir begins to sing.
?Mom, are you going to CRY at our concert tonight??
?No, I mean, I?ll try not to. I don?t know, you guys. I can?t help it.?
My husband looks at me, hopelessly.
?She will probably cry. Don?t worry about it,? he says to them.
When we started Running Club, they wouldn?t stand right next to me and warm up like they used to. They stood far across the circle and tried really hard not to look at me. I asked them why...
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Timing and Cues
commentary with in:
This Mother's Day I am thinking about how embarrassing I am...
.....Happy Mother's Day, Mom. GOD."
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Additional Files
- ME AND MY KIDS AND MY NEIGHBOR'S BABY (dscf0229.jpg)
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