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Commentator Nanci Olesen expresses her profound and mundane thoughts about the change of seasons. She wistfully bids farewell to the lawn chairs and tank tops and grudgingly bucks up to start gathering wood, making soup, and managing holiday schedules.
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Piece Description
Commentator Nanci Olesen expresses her profound and mundane thoughts about the change of seasons. She wistfully bids farewell to the lawn chairs and tank tops and grudgingly bucks up to start gathering wood, making soup, and managing holiday schedules.
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
As the leaves turn golden and my hair turns grey, as my children grow taller than me and the days get shorter, as the sunlight feels weak and the air feels cold, as the flowers in my garden turn brown and the squash is ready to pick, and I start to get used to the the way the day rushes toward me with lists longer than I can manage, as the traffic piles up on the interstate just when I need to zip across town, I run across my ticket to the state fair crumpled at the bottom of my purse. WAIT A SECOND!
My youngest daughter suggested that we put our new fire pot out on the deck and sit around a warm campfire after dinner. I knew we would have to wrap in sweaters and blankets. I couldn?t muster the energy.
How come I have to start thinking about who needs a new winter jacket? Why is it always the same, the way I never ever get our pictures and maps from our summer trip into an albu...
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