Thursday, September 4, 2008

On the radio: Motherhood Unplugged


I was on a new LA radio show on KPFK 90.7 FM last Saturday called, Motherhood Unplugged. It was a great experience! Amy Simon, who is both host and creator, contacted me at the end of July to see if I would be interested in coming on the show. She found me through an essay I wrote called, "Where life is a bit bumpy with a BOY and a GIRL 10 months apart." I had submitted it to LA Parent magazine this past winter for an essay contest on motherhood. It details how BOY came into our lives through Open Adoption, and the shocking discovery of my pregnancy with GIRL when BOY was an infant.

Amy provided a fabulous environment in which we all felt safe and valued for our work. It was lovely. If you'd like to listen to my piece, please click on this link. There is an introduction to the show and my reading starts at 7 minutes 45 seconds into the show. And if you have time to listen to the whole show, you're in for a treat. There are some very talented, funny mom writers out there!

If you like the show, please go to http://www.kpfk.org/ , click on Program Comments (on the left) and tell them to move the show into a better time slot! Amy Simon has got something going on with Motherhood Unplugged! Here's to Mothers who Write!


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16 comments:

  1. congrats on the radio show and the recognition as a writer! keep writing!

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  2. What fun! Congrats on the radio show.

    We're so proud of you.

    (I did too know way back...)

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  3. I am so stinking proud of you and your talent.

    Your voice is like VELVET.

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  4. Well Done!...I'm off to listen - that will be really unusual to hear a blog!
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  5. ....
    fabulous...you have a wonderful voice for talking books...I could listen for hours!
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  6. I actually got to hear most of the show and I loved it! You really do have a lovely speaking voice.

    I loved your story. I wasn't aware that Boy's was an open adoption. Clearly his birth mother chose very wisely.

    God is in His heaven and all is right with the world.

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  7. The speaker on my laptop is broken, but as soon as I get to someone else's . . .

    Congratulations on this!

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  8. Oh my gosh! That was FANTASTIC! You did such a great job, and really made the story come alive! I love your voice, too, and somehow it is exactly how I imagined it. I got a little teary. What a wonderful miracle you have had, well, two miracles!

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  9. OMG! You blew me away!

    that composure! that voice! that tone! that charisma...I don't know...You were just fabulous!

    thank God that my elder one is still asleep at 10am and my younger one is with the cartoons...if not, I would NEVER been able to enjoy this special moment.

    Great! Simply Great, JCK!

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  10. This is so amazing and I am sure just the first step in many great new opportunities for you!

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  11. Wonderful. You deserve to be heard.

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  12. You could make a mint recording Books on CD...especially if they're books you write. I'm so emailing that station and telling them to make you a NETWORK STAR! mwah!

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  13. Congrats on the show! That's awesome!

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  14. I am so excited for you that you did this. I think I remember reading that story somewhere on your blog, but to hear you read it your ownself was extra special and made me cry. You have a beautiful voice, and it's so wonderful to put a voice with the smiling face. you know how i am. :)

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