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In this short commentary, Nanci Olesen describes "another night at the park" watching her nine year old son learn to play baseball.
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Piece Description
In this short commentary, Nanci Olesen describes "another night at the park" watching her nine year old son learn to play baseball.
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
Yeah right. You HAVE to wear your sunglasses because it?s so bright out. You HAVE to keep them on for the whole baseball game that your nine year old son is playing at the park district field. Cause it?s so bright. Uh huh.
He goes up to bat and you smile and sort of look away, not wanting to appear too anxious, shouting out a nonchalant ?Go!? just so he knows you?re paying attention. You might have met a few of the other parents and casually made conversation about how busy this time of year is or whether it?s going to rain tonight or where your kids go to school.... and your son steps up to bat and he loves baseball so much and the kid who is pitching to him is tall and it?s sort of a fast ball that he pitches and your son stands there at the plate, gripped in terror.
?Give it a swing buddy,? you shout. Then behind your sunglasses you feel that burning in your eyes and yo...
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