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Listen To Your Mother: What She Said Then

“Have Yourself a Busy Little Breakdown” and More New Holiday Greetings

    I’m feeling worn-out from the annual Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays salutation debacle. Typically, when greeted with Merry Christmas, I respond in kind, although it feels as natural to me as Elsa’s Frozen ponytail strapped to my head. Which is to say, it feels blond. However, responding Happy Holidays or Happy New Year or Happy Hanukkah’s Over when greeted with Merry Christmas seems a little passive aggressive. Therefore, and with great gaiety,  I give you the gift of new holiday greetings: Buoyant exhaustion to you and yours!   Blithe and non-travel-interfering winter scene upon you!… Read More »“Have Yourself a Busy Little Breakdown” and More New Holiday Greetings

    Join me Sunday at Arcadia Books! Also, LTYM Video Release!! Lastly, Washington Post!!!

      DUCK AND COVER! I am coming at you on allllll of the platforms… VIDEO: Big news! Listen To Your Mother released our 2015 videos, adding 450 new stories of motherhood to our LTYMShow YouTube channel! Now our archives houses nearly 1500 videos from five seasons of LTYM shows. You can watch videos from the 6th annual Madison show here, then skip hop and jump around by city, reader name, keyword, or topic! Most enormous gigantic thanks to my business strategist and video producer Deb Rox plus online content manager Stephanie Precourt who’ve spent the past… Read More »Join me Sunday at Arcadia Books! Also, LTYM Video Release!! Lastly, Washington Post!!!

      I looked up the meaning of Ann because there isn’t enough going on with a new book and 38 shows.

        I know you are so busy, but have you googled the meaning of your name? Look what I found for “Ann!” Talk about uncanny. I mean it’s close, but for the skeptics out there–I’m an Ann who knows how to spell “mouths.” *** Other things I’ve kept busy with when not haranguing you with unwarranted life-coaching: 1. You guys the book launch–well, it is so much more than a book and it was so much more than a launch. I wrote all about it here, and you can see gorgeous photos by Anna Palmer of… Read More »I looked up the meaning of Ann because there isn’t enough going on with a new book and 38 shows.

        The Listen To Your Mother Book is Born!! Happy pub day #LTYMBOOK!!

          Today is a defining day for me, for 55 additional contributors and for LTYM. Two years ago I got the first email from my agent Elizabeth Kaplan, and today LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now hits bookshelves everywhere. There SO are many people to thank–especially my editor Liz Stein, my national LTYM team, over 100 director/producers across the country, everyone at Putnam Books–especially Stephanie Hargadon and Elena Hershey who coordinated the launch event with Book Court (with help from LTYM: NYC team of Amy Wilson, Elizabeth Robinson & Barbara… Read More »The Listen To Your Mother Book is Born!! Happy pub day #LTYMBOOK!!