Day: December 23, 2007

La Llorona

I wonder how many raisins I have to eat to get my iron levels back to normal. Here’s a program I produced about twenty years ago. La Llorona — the crying woman — is the Mexican equivalent of the bogeyman in the US: a great story and an effective behavior modification tool. The show aired on NPR’s All Things Considered. I suspect that listeners wondered about the mental stability of the producer. In fact, I […]

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Holiday Cheer

For a change, I’m gonna let the pictures do the talking, or however the saying goes. All you get is a bitteen of context: Dinner with Anna, Frank and Amy tonight. I’ve known Amy since before she was born, and this is the first time I’ve seen her for years. It doesn’t seem so long ago that I used to do my favorite baby trick with her. With “Airplane Baby” I’d swoop her infant self […]

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