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20120513_buchman_lowell_oriental
Week of May 13, 2012
Segment 1: Memoir of Learning Disabilities, then ... Living Clutter-Free
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Dana Buchman, A Special Education: One Family's Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilities is best known for her upscale women's clothing line. But in this memoir, she recounts the long and often difficult road her family faced when her eldest daughter was diagnosed with Learning Disabilities (LD). Then ...
The TV design guru Christopher Lowell, Christopher Lowell's Seven Layers of Organization turns his attention to clutter. This book offers a step-by-step guide to getting organized and staying clutter-free.
Segment 2: Making Music on The West Bank
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Amid the violence and tragedy in the Palestinian areas, a thriving music scene can be found at the Edward Said National Conservatory, located in the West Bank. Four members of The Oriental Music Ensemble, Faculty of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music join me to showcase their traditional Palestinian music and discuss the challenges of life in that area of the world.
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20120506_buchanan_cross
Week of May 6, 2012
Segment 1: Lessons from a Single Mom
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A former U.S. Treasurer and sister of former Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, Bay Buchanan, Bay and Her Boys: Unexpected Lessons I Learned as a (Single) Mom was "dumped" into single parenthood. She had two young boys and was pregnant with her third when she had to figure out how to raise them on her own. She lists simple rules for all parents to follow and backs them up with her own often hilarious personal experience.
Segment 2: Secret Daughter and the Mom Who Gave Her Away
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The relationship between mothers and daughters is one often fraught with both pain and tenderness. This is the story of two of those relationships. The first is June Cross, Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away. She is an award winning journalist and former TV producer. In her memoir, she discusses race relations in America from the experience of a mixed race daughter, and her white mother's decision to have her raised by a black family.
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