Today?s show is about Parenthood- we?ll get a perspective on everything from the birthing room, relating to parents as adults. Emily Moore Reads from her book ?Strong Stuff: Mother?s Stories?. Essayist Mark Holt-Shannon and Rick Watrous share their perspective on becoming fathers. Poets Cynthia Huntington and Mary Ellen Janiero share words of wisdom with their children, and Sandell Morse writes about relating to her own parents as a grown woman.
Mark Holt Shannon: ?The Other Thing?
holtshannon@go.com
?It?s been a struggle balancing writing and full-time parenthood, wanting to feel successful at both. This piece is a start at telling that story.?
Mark has done some freelance writing for Strawberry Banke Museum and for the University of New Hampshire, has had one essay published in Garden Lane, a local (Durham, NH) literary publication. Now he is mostly trying to find an audience and/or market for essays-?written, photographic and in combination?-on stay-home-fatherhood.
Mark Holt-Shannon grew up in Southern California, left in 1987, partially for grad school (counseling), but mostly to wander. Spent four years in two schools in Ohio and then took a student life job at the University of New Hampshire. Today, he lives in Dover with his wife, Michele, and daughters, Noa, and Olivia.
Mary Ellen Janeiro: ?After ?Happily Ever After?
mejaneiro@aol.com
Mary Ellen Janeiro wrote this poem after repeated viewings of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty with her two daughters. Much to Mary Ellen?s dismay, they are hooked on the whole, ?princess, ball gown, get married, and live with a handsome prince? scenario. She wanted to give them a little insight into the post-nuptial life of a modern-day Cinderella with this poem ?After ?Happily Ever After.? Mary Ellen Janeiro grew up in Maine, and now lives in Plaistow. She is a High school English teacher and the Director of the Robert Frost Foundation. http://www.frostfoundation.org
Mary Ellen Janeiro is currently working on a prose poem memoir. She can be heard reading along with other New England Poets at the monthly Lawrence Poetry Hoot in Massachusetts.
Emily Moore: excerpt from Strong Stuff: Mother?s Stories
emstrongstuff@aol.com
www.emilymoore.com
Emily Moore took on the enormous task of documenting the story of motherhood. She interviewed 84 women from all different walks of life to create her book.
She grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Smith College in 1971. She later earned a master?s degree in counseling from the University of New Hampshire. She is the mother of two boys, now 24 and 25. They were teenagers when most of the work for Strong Stuff was done.
Emily lives in Deerfield, New Hampshire with her Husband Richard. She own and operates Moore Designs, Inc. a jewelry manufacturing business. Emily was recently acknowledged as the 1st Books Library?s Best-Selling Author for the last six months of 2000.
Sandell Morse: ?Needing Sustenance?
sandellme@aol.com
After spending many years living and writing in New Hampshire, Sandell Morse has recently moved with her husband to York, Maine. She feels as if she belongs to both New Hampshire and to Maine. She loves both the mountains and the sea.
Morse's short stories have appeared in many literary magazines including IRIS, GREEN MOUNTAINS REVIEW, BRIDGES, PLOUGHSHARES, and the NEW ENGLAND REVIEW.
Her nonfiction has appeared in the EATING BETWEEN THE LINES, A MAINE WRITERS' COOKBOOK, and in GARDEN LANE. Her essays have been anthologized in SURVIVING CRISIS, TWENTY PROMINENT AUTHORS WRITE ABUT EVENTS THAT SHAPED THEIR LIVES and in DUTIFUL DAUGHTERS, CARING FOR OUR PARENTS AS THEY GROW OLD.
She has been a fellow at the Vermont Studio Colony and at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and a finalist in the PLOUGHSHARES Robie Macauley Fellowship Award. She has also received a nomination for a PUSHCART PRIZE.
She has taught nonfiction at the University of New Hampshire and most recently at the University of Maine in Farmington. She also teaches workshops for the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and for the New Hampshire
Writers' Project.
Rick Watrous ?Mood Music and Birthing Pain Just Don?t Mix? (Concord Monitor November 7th 1993)
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This piece is true, but Rick Watrous insists that he left out the parts that made him look like a sensitive husband and nervous husband to be. We should call his wife Debbie to find out? His Daughter, Miranda, is now 9 and loves music just as much as Rick.
Rick Watrous wrote SHADOWDAD: When Is Life Not Worth Living? It is the story of dealing with the aftermath of his father?s stroke. http://studio4productions.com
Rick and his family have lived in Concord for the last 15 years. He writes for the Concord Monitor and is the Director of Concord Community Television.
Cynthia Huntington: ?Advice?
cynthia.huntington@dartmouth.edu
She has also written two collections of poetry: The Fish-Wife and We Have Gone to the Beach. Cynthia Huntington is an English Professor and the Director of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. She lives in Hanover, New Hampshire with her husband and son.
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