Product Description
Collected from live radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, these humorous and heart-warming stories and songs celebrate the ups and downs of motherhood. Includes the News from Lake Wobegon, and guest appearances from Robin and Linda Williams, Inga Swearingen, Vern Sutton, Prudence Johnson, the Rankin Family, and more.
“She brought you forth out of the cloud of genetics and fed and clothed you and taught you to wipe yourself and say Please and Thank You and never expected you to pay her back, only that you behave appropriately and try to make something of yourself and not land in prison but if you had, she’d love you because after all she’s your Mother.”
Garrison Keillor
Contents:
“She brought you forth out of the cloud of genetics and fed and clothed you and taught you to wipe yourself and say Please and Thank You and never expected you to pay her back, only that you behave appropriately and try to make something of yourself and not land in prison but if you had, she’d love you because after all she’s your Mother.”
Garrison Keillor
Contents:
- Mom: Facebook
- “Mama’s Hungry Eyes”
- How to Write a Letter to Mom
- “Shirley World”
- Mother’s Day Quilt
- Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie: Mother’s Day Dinner
- “Mama Told Me Not to Come”
- Butter
- “Trees”
- The News from Lake Wobegon: Scrambled Eggs for Mom
- “Hush Little Baby”
- Mother’s Day Ballads
- The Lives of the Cowboys: A Visit from Mom
- “My Mother Was a Lady”
- Mother’s Day: Creationism
- “Tell My Ma”(Includes “Molly Rankin’s Reel”)
- Mom: The Melon Baller
- Mother’s Day: The Prison Break
- The News from Lake Wobegon: Mother-Daughter Dinner
Reviews/Praise
Book Vault
“Lasts longer than flowers, has far fewer calories than chocolates and is definitely more entertaining than either.”
BookPage
Author Bio
Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities. When not touring, he resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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